FC: Ed Felten, cowed by music industry, speaks at Stanford 5/17

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 15:12:03 PDT

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    Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:18:37 -0700
    From: Barbara Simons <simonsat_private>
    To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    Subject: a talk by Ed Felten at Stanford
    
    Declan,
    Would you please post this to your list.
    Thanks.
    Barbara
    
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    PLEASE CIRCULATE
    
    Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI
    Challenge and itsAftermath
    
    Prof. Edward Felten, Dept of Computer Science
    Princeton University
    
    Date Thursday, May 17
    Time: 2:15 - 4:00
    Location: Math 380-380
    Stanford Univ.
    
    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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