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Free Speech Issue: "SDMI cracks revealed"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18434.html


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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