By admin on May 17, 2001 at 1:18 am
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
- the effect of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on computer security researchers
Edward Felten is a Professor in the Computer Science Department, at Princeton University and will be on sabbatical at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School for the 2001-2002 school year.
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