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"The SDMI, the RIAA and industry lawyers better get something straight: preventing piracy
doesn't mean you can punish researchers."
http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,24208,00.html
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RIAA: Statement by Matthew Oppenheim on Professor Felten
"Press release in which RIAA claims it never intended to bring legal action against Professor
Felten, and that it 'strongly believes in academic freedom and Freedom of Speech'."
http://www.riaa.com/news%5Cnewsletter%5Cpress2001%5C042501.asp
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BBC: Security Through Censorship
"The recording industry is trying to gag scientists who exposed the shortcomings of security
systems used to protect online music."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1296384.stm
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BBC: Legal Challenge to US Piracy Law
"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/1375151.stm
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BBC: Digital Music's Security Flaws Exposed
"The secrets of digital music's anti-copying devices have been finally revealed by an American
professor."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/new_media/1492835.stm
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Slashdot: Felten Won't Appeal DMCA Case
"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.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1826213
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Slashdot: DMCA 2, Freedom 0
"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://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/29/001234&mode=nested
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Wired: Copyright Law Foes Lose Big
"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."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48726,00.html
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Register: US Courts Kowtow to Entertainment Industry
News of DeCSS linking case upheld on appeal and the dismissal of Felten v. RIAA.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23084.html
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PCWorld: RIAA Silences Security Code Crackers
"Under pressure, academic chooses not to present paper on ways to crack SDMI music
encryption." By Sam Costello.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,48546,00.asp
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Newsfactor: Scientists Sue to Publish Music Code Crack
"Professor Edward Felten is again taking on the recording industry, saying that open
discussion of his team's code-cracking findings will improve technology and consumer choice."
By Jay Lyman.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/11063.html
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PCWorld: Silenced Professor Sues SDMI, RIAA
"Researcher: Report shows digital music security weakness, but it's no how-to manual." By
Scarlet Pruitt.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,52006,00.asp
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Wired: SDMI Code-Breaker Speaks Freely
"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.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46097,00.html
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Slashdot: Felten vs. RIAA Hearing
Account of the November 29 hearing in Felten vs. RIAA, and discussion forum.
http://slashdot.org/features/01/11/30/1739226.shtml
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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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18434.html
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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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/18546.html
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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.
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/22/princeton_sdmi/
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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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14211.html
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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)."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16107.html
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Daily Princetonian: Copyright Law May Prevent Computer Science Team from Publishing MP3 Research
"This past October, associate computer science professor Edward Felten and a team of
researchers were able to remove digital watermarks from digital audio files - new watermarking
technology developed by the industry not in use yet, a feat that would make the people at Napster
smile." By Heather Aspras.
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/Content/2001/02/08/news/881.shtml
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kuro5hin: RIAA Attempting Suppression of SDMI Paper
News and discussion forum.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/4/25/19162/4143
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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.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/technology/24MUSI.html
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Salon: Is the RIAA Running Scared?
"A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry."
By Janelle Brown.
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/04/26/felten/
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Daily Princetonian: Music Industry Warns Felten
"Research team may not be able to publish digital watermark crack." By Joshua Tauberer.
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/Content/2001/05/03/news/1134.shtml
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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.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,43377,00.html
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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.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44344,00.html
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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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/19555.html
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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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21086.html
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Slashdot: ACM vs. RIAA
"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://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/31/1650255.shtml
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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."
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/12/0456218
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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.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43353,00.html
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