Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI (fwd)

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From: Adam L. Beberg (beberg@mithral.com)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 15:37:53 PDT


This seemed of interest to valley forkies... another professor stomped on by
the man...

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com

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Subject: Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI

PLEASE CIRCULATE

 Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI
 Challenge and its Aftermath

 Prof. Edward Felten, Dept of Computer Science
 Princeton University

 Date Thursday, May 17
 Time: 2:15 - 4:00
 Location: Math (Building 380) Room 380
 Stanford University

 The music industry has proposed a range of "security
 technologies" designed to prevent the unauthorized
 copying of recorded music. Recently a group of researchers,
 including the speaker Prof. Edward Felten, was forced to
 withdraw from publication a paper analyzing several of these
 technologies, due to threats of litigation by the music industry.

 This talk will discuss what happened:
   - the status of anti-copying technology,
   - how the music industry is trying to prevent copying
   - an overview of the technical analysis
   - how and why the authors were threatened,
   - and the effect of the Digital Millennium Copyright
     Act on computer security researchers.

 DIRECTIONS:
 You can locate the building by going to
 http://www.stanford.edu/home/map/search_map.html
 and clicking on Bldg. 380 Mathematics in the list of
 Academic and Administrative Buildings. Parking info
 can be found at http://www-facilities.stanford.edu/maps/download/.
 Please allow extra time for parking.


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