Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

["S.Toms" <smotrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, crrey wrote:

c> That's exactly what I said when I e-mailed the team at the copy protection
c> development site working for the RIAA in San Diego.  I questioned the wisdom
c> of quashing academic research findings and said that they were foolish by
c> not taking what he had found and using it to strengthen their protocol.  I

  Who says they didn't take it? All it says is that under pressure from
the RIAA it's not going to be published. You can bet your ass the RIAA
already had it, otherwise they wouldn't have pressured them not to publish
how easy it was to crack their protection.

c> also pointed out if someone did it once it will most like be cracked again,
c> and by someone who doesn't have any academic or professional status to worry
c> about - "and then the cats out of the bag", or out on the web as the case
c> may be!
c> 

  True, here at least it was for academic reasons, the next time it will
most likely be for exploitable/profitable (to someone else that is)
reasons.

c> crrey wrote:
c> 
c> > Here's an article posted by IDG.net's TechInformer.
c> >
c> > UNDER RIAA PRESSURE, ACADEMIC DOES NOT PRESENT PAPER
c> > (Source: IDG.net) Edward Felten, the Princeton computer science
c> > professor who has been at the center of some controversy this week due
c> > to a paper he wrote detailing ways to crack the encryption in the SDMI
c> > digital music system, chose not to present his findings at a
c> > conference.  http://www.techinformer.com/go.cgi?id=466403
c> 
c> For the actual paper, go to
c> 
c> http://www.theregister.co.uk/extra/sdmi-attack.htm
c> 
c> Once it's been copied off the net, there's no way that RIAA can close the
c> barn door.
c> 
c> Paul Abrahams
c> 

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