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Salon: Is the RIAA Running Scared? - http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/04/26/felten/
"A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry." By Janelle Brown. |
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Standard: Copyright Thugs - http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,24208,00.html
"The SDMI, the RIAA and industry lawyers better get something straight: preventing piracy doesn't mean you can punish researchers." |
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Register: Prof Hushes SDMI Crack on DMCA Terror - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/15/prof_hushes_sdmi_crack/
"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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Wired: SDMI Code-Breaker Speaks Freely - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/08/46097
"After the recording industry warned the Princeton University researcher not to speak at a conference in April about how he and colleagues cracked anti-copying technology, Felten didn't give up." By Declan McCullagh. |
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Wired: Code-Breakers Go to Court - http://www.wired.com/gadgets/portablemusic/news/2001/06/44344
"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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Register: SDMI Cracks Revealed - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/23/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. |
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Register: SDMI Crack Team Launches Preemptive Suit - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/07/sdmi_crack_team_launches_preemptive/
"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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BBC: Security Through Censorship - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1296384.stm
"The recording industry is trying to gag scientists who exposed the shortcomings of security systems used to protect online music." |
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BBC: Digital Music's Security Flaws Exposed - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/new_media/1492835.stm
"The secrets of digital music's anti-copying devices have been finally revealed by an American professor." |
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PCWorld: RIAA Silences Security Code Crackers - http://www.pcworld.com/article/48546/riaa_silences_security_code_crackers.html
"Under pressure, academic chooses not to present paper on ways to crack SDMI music encryption." By Sam Costello. |
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Slashdot: DMCA 2, Freedom 0 - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/29/001234
"Politech is featuring this press release from EFF stating Judge Garrett Brown of the Federal District Court in Trenton, New Jersey, threw out the EFF-Felten case challenging the DMCA after less than 25 minutes of debate." News and discussion forum. |
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Slashdot: Felten Won't Appeal DMCA Case - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1826213
"The EFF is reporting that Prof. Felten et al will not be appealing the judge's dismissal of his case challenging the DMCA." News and discussion forum. |
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Slashdot: DoJ Supports Dismissal of Felten v. RIAA Case - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/12/0456218
"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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Slashdot: ACM vs. RIAA - http://slashdot.org/yro/01/08/31/1650255.shtml
"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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PCWorld: Silenced Professor Sues SDMI, RIAA - http://www.pcworld.com/article/52006/silenced_professor_sues_sdmi_riaa.html
"Researcher: Report shows digital music security weakness, but it's no how-to manual." By Scarlet Pruitt. |
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NYTimes: Record Panel Threatens Researcher With Lawsuit - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/technology/24MUSI.html
"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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Wired: Another Stain on Copyright Law - http://www.wired.com/gadgets/portablemusic/news/2001/04/43377
"Once again, the law intended to promote the distribution of content on the Internet has instead been used to restrict it." By Brad King. |
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Wired: Watermark Crackers Back Away - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/04/43353
"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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Wired: Copyright Law Foes Lose Big - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/11/48726
"On Wednesday, with a pair of federal courts siding with the music and record industry, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lost two of its most important intellectual property cases so far." |
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kuro5hin: RIAA Attempting Suppression of SDMI Paper - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/4/25/19162/4143
News and discussion forum. |
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Register: Uni Team Claims SDMI Cracked, and 'Inherently Vulnerable' - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/24/uni_team_claims_sdmi_cracked/
"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 - http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/22/princeton_sdmi/
"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 - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/27/sdmi_crack_team_scurries_away/
"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. |
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Slashdot: Felten vs. RIAA Hearing - http://slashdot.org/features/01/11/30/1739226.shtml
Account of the November 29 hearing in Felten vs. RIAA, and discussion forum. |
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Register: Felten Spills the SDMI Beans - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/16/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. |