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Felten & Co. Present SDMI Findings, Finally

Posted by timothy on from the knocking-down-facades dept.

chill writes: "Princeton scientist Dr. Edward Felten and his colleagues presented their paper entitled 'Reading Between the Lines: Lessons From an SDMI Challenge' at the Usenix Security Symposium. CNN has an article. This is the paper that the RIAA threatened legal action (DMCA) over in the past, if he made his findings public. They have since backed off their threats." Newsforge is carrying a piece on the same thing that goes into a bit more depth, and links to coverage of yesterday's press conference, and the Standard has a decent piece on it as well.

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  1. But that's not all... by Monthenor · · Score: 5, Funny

    The DMCA is far from dead. In fact, it appears to be working overtime. We're all doomed!

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  2. The Standard is really stooping low... by nougatmachine · · Score: 2, Funny
    Go on, read the story, and you'll notice that the headline is "Princeton Professor Bares All."

    Silly guys. Don't they realize that on the internet, the headline is only as tantalizing as what the referring link says, so this kind of thing doesn't increase readership?

  3. Re:Prime Number Theory by AntiNorm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for someone to use RSA or something similar for copy protection purposes. Then, it will be illegal to do research on prime number theory, because discussing efficient algorithms to factor large numbers will be a violation of the DMCA. Last I heard, this was a semi-hot topic in math research.

    Illegal prime numbers do exist already.

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  4. Re:They didn't back off... by sandidge · · Score: 4, Funny
    Actually, since we're talking about the RIAA here, wouldn't that be "straight from the horse's ass"? :)