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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. Webcast by stillwaxin · · Score: 3, Informative

    here

  2. Re:They didn't back off... by daoine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Straight from the horse's mouth... the RIAA letter

  3. Prof. Felten's Version... by daoine · · Score: 5, Informative
    If anyone is interested, Prof. Felten has kept a log of what's going on at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/sdmi/

    He's got the RIAA letter, the statement contradicting the RIAA letter, the agreement to the competition, and other such nifty info.

  4. Re:Corporations as individuals, and accountability by Ikari+Gendo · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem is we've had too many multi-million-dollar judgments against corporations because some loon spilled coffee on her lap or because some idiot couldn't read the Surgeon General's Warning. These are cases where the individuals themselves were the ones who should have been held accountable, but the corporations ended up getting the blame.

    This is a common misconception, and I think that the "Insightful" moderation needs a little reality check. Ms. Liebeck (the McDonald's coffee plaintiff) was hospitalized for eight days because of the coffee's temperature. She did not seek a multimillion dollar sentiment from the outset -- she merely wanted compensation for her medical bills. From http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/legalmyths/ coffee.html:

    Before a suit was ever filed, Liebeck informed McDonald's about her injuries and asked for compensation for her medical bills, which totaled almost $11,000. McDonald's countered with a ludicrously low $800 offer...McDonald's refused all attempts to settle the case.

    Finally, the jury's punitive award of 2.7 million dollars was chosen to reflect two days' worth of coffee sales for Mcdonald's.

    The "McDonald's Coffee" suit is a particularly poor example for anyone wishing to blame "individuals" for corporate ass-covering and buyouts of government.

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