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Firm drops suit against grad's CD hack
<b>LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A software company, citing academic freedom, has backed away from a threat to sue a Princeton student who published details on how to thwart its CD copy-protection technology....</b>
[blockquote]Peter Jacobs, the chief executive of SunnComm Technologies Inc. , said Friday the company disputed the conclusion by Princeton student Alex Halderman that its software was "irreparably flawed," but would not pursue the matter because it did not want to chill academic research.
Halderman, who is working on a doctorate in computer science, posted a paper on his Web site earlier this week detailing the ways SunnComm's MediaMax software could be defeated. These included simply holding down the "Shift" key on a keyboard, while loading the disc in to a CD drive.
SunnComm did not contest that finding, but earlier said the paper cost the company more than $10 million in market capitalization...[/blockquote]
<b>Source: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/10/13/media.sunncomm.reut/index.html" target="_new">CNN</a></b>
<i>Submitted by QCH2002</i>
[blockquote]Peter Jacobs, the chief executive of SunnComm Technologies Inc. , said Friday the company disputed the conclusion by Princeton student Alex Halderman that its software was "irreparably flawed," but would not pursue the matter because it did not want to chill academic research.
Halderman, who is working on a doctorate in computer science, posted a paper on his Web site earlier this week detailing the ways SunnComm's MediaMax software could be defeated. These included simply holding down the "Shift" key on a keyboard, while loading the disc in to a CD drive.
SunnComm did not contest that finding, but earlier said the paper cost the company more than $10 million in market capitalization...[/blockquote]
<b>Source: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/10/13/media.sunncomm.reut/index.html" target="_new">CNN</a></b>
<i>Submitted by QCH2002</i>
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