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.
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