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American Record Chiefs Silence Academic Code-Crackers.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2001

By Jat Gill, Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 29--American record executives have stopped academics revealing how to crack top-secret technology to protect online music against copying.

Edward Felten, a Princeton University researcher and leader of a team that cracked the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), was due to present a paper revealing their methods last Thursday at the Fourth International Information Hiding Workshop, an academic conference in Pittsburgh.

But he and his colleagues were forced to keep silent after Felten received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents the biggest names in the music industry, appearing to threaten legal action if...

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