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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 26 11:51:26 PDT 2001


[from InfoWorld's daily scoop]

UNDER RIAA PRESSURE, ACADEMIC DOES NOT PRESENT PAPER

Posted at April 26, 2001 08:44 AM Pacific

EDWARD FELTEN, THE Princeton computer science professor who has been at the center of some controversy this week due to a paper he wrote detailing ways to crack the encryption in the SDMI digital music system, chose not to present his findings at a conference Thursday.

Felten chose not to present and publish the paper due to the threat of a lawsuit by SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), the Recording Industry Association of America, and Verance, the maker the one of SDMI's encryption technologies, according to a statement posted Thursday on Felten's Web site.

For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/04/26/010426hnfelt.xml?0426thpm



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