On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, John Young wrote:
> RIAA and The SDMI Foundation on April 9 warned Ed Felten
> and his researchers not to publish their paper about the
> weaknesses of the SDMI content protection system at the
> 4th International Information Hiding Workshop to be held
> April 25-29, 2001.
There is also a comment on slashdot from Julien Stern
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/21/1319251.shtml
(about 2/3 of the way down)
noting that the RIAA have yet to contact him regarding his own paper on
the SDMI Challenge. Even so, he is now reconsidering whether to present
his paper at IHW next week. If that isn't a chilling effect, I don't know
what is.
Does the RIAA have any chance of winning a case against Felten et al? What
disturbs me most is that, unlike the "national security" cases, there
seems to be some kind of contract between the SDMI people and the
researchers.
If Stern presents his SDMI results in the U.S., would he open himself to
criminal or civil penalties?
-David
