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"The secrets of digital music's anti-copying devices have been finally revealed by an American professor."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1375151.stm
"Record makers are being sued by scientists who want to show up the holes in technology being used to protect music against piracy." By Mark Ward.
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."
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.
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.
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)."
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.
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.
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.
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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/29/us_courts_kowtow_to_entertainment/
News of DeCSS linking case upheld on appeal and the dismissal of Felten v. 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.'"
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.
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."
http://slashdot.org/features/01/11/30/1739226.shtml
Account of the November 29 hearing in Felten vs. RIAA, and discussion forum.
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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