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[FYI] Free Speech Issue: "SDMI cracks revealed"
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- Subject: [FYI] Free Speech Issue: "SDMI cracks revealed"
- From: "Axel H Horns" <axel.horns@fitug.de>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:06:05 +0200
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18434.html
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SDMI cracks revealed
By: Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 23/04/2001 at 08:09 GMT
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.
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