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Wired: Watermark Crackers Back Away
"A team of academics who broke a music-watermarking scheme bowed to legal threats from the entertainment industry and decided not to describe their research at a conference on Thursday." By Declan McCullagh.
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Slashdot: DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case
"The EFF is reporting that the Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the pending Felten v. RIAA case because it's 'not ripe' and it fails to address serious First Amendment problems."
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"The ACM position is: 'ACM believes that the application of any law to limit the freedom to publish research on computer technology will impose a cost not only on ACM's members, but also on the academic community, the process of scientific discourse, and society in general.'"
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Register: Felten Spills the SDMI Beans
"Princeton University Professor Edward Felten, who led the team of researchers which successfully cracked the SDMI challenge, delivered his group's findings at the tenth annual USENIX conference in Washington Wednesday, and was not arrested." By Thomas C. Greene.
www.theregister.co.uk
Register: SDMI Crack Team Launches Preemptive Suit
"The Princeton University team which rose successfully to the SDMI challenge is asking the US District Court in New Jersey to issue a declaratory judgment absolving them of liability before releasing the results of their research into cracking several anti-piracy technologies." By Thomas C. Greene.
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Wired: Code-Breakers Go to Court
"After a team of academics who broke a music-watermarking scheme bowed to legal threats from the recording industry and chose not to publish their research in April, they vowed to 'fight another day, in another way.'" By Declan McCullagh.
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Wired: Another Stain on Copyright Law
"Once again, the law intended to promote the distribution of content on the Internet has instead been used to restrict it." By Brad King.
www.wired.com
Salon: Is the RIAA Running Scared?
"A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry." By Janelle Brown.
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NYTimes: Record Panel Threatens Researcher With Lawsuit
"The recording industry has threatened a Princeton computer scientist with legal action if his research group presents a paper at an academic conference this week describing how it is possible to circumvent an industry music-protection system." By John Markoff. [Free registration required.]
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kuro5hin: RIAA Attempting Suppression of SDMI Paper
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Register: Prof Hushes SDMI Crack on DMCA Terror
"Princeton University computer science professor Edward Felten, who has claimed to have helped crack the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) watermark challenge, now says he's withholding the details of his accomplishment on advice of legal counsel fearing he could open himself to prosecution under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."
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Register: Uni Team Claims SDMI Cracked, and 'Inherently Vulnerable'
"SDMI now looks comprehensively hacked, with the release of a report by a group of security and digital watermarking researchers claiming that they successfully beat the Hack SDMI challenge." By John Lettice.
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Salon: Another Crack in the SDMI Wall
"A team of researchers claims to have successfully hacked a digital music watermarking system." By Janelle Brown.
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Register: SDMI Crack Team Scurries Away in Fear Again
"Princeton University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten, who has credited himself and his team with cracking the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) Public Challenge, has once again wussed-out after threatening to do something frightfully daring like publish the results of his research." By Thomas C. Greene.
www.theregister.co.uk
Register: SDMI Cracks Revealed
"The academic cracker crew led by Princeton University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten, which answered the HackSDMI public challenge of last September with 'unqualified' results, has received veiled threats of criminal prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from the SDMI Foundation in hopes that the team will be cowed into withholding what it's learned from an upcoming computer science conference." By Thomas C. Greene.
www.theregister.co.uk