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[FYI] Nachspiel des SDMI-Hack-Contest: DCMA und die Unterrichtung der Oeffentlichkeit
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:23:07 +0100
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/15/technology/15TUNE.html?printpage=yes
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January 15, 2001
Group Says It Beat Music Security but Can't Reveal How
By AMY HARMON
Edward W. Felten, an associate professor of computer science at
Princeton , is perhaps best known for his role in the Microsoft
antitrust trial. During the trial, where he demonstrated a program
that he said stripped the Internet Explorer browser from the Windows
operating system, he spent hours explaining what he had done and how
he had done it.
But the professor has been far less forthcoming about a more recent
hack, and at a conference last week he explained why: Lawyers have
advised him that publicizing the details of his tinkering could
violate a 1998 federal law called the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act.
As part of an industry competition to test the security of a digital
music copyright protection system developed by a group of
entertainment and technology companies, Professor Felten was part of
a group that says it successfully disabled the system. But he said he
was reluctant to make public the details of how it was done because
the 1998 law made it a crime to manufacture or "offer to the public"
a way to gain unauthorized access to any copyright-protected work
that has been secured by a technology like encryption.
"It is not clear the extent to which we're allowed to publish our
results or discuss them in public," Dr. Felten told about 400 people
at Georgetown University last week at a two- day conference sponsored
by the Coalition for the Future of Music.
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