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Another Case of Digital Millennium Copyright Act 'Prior Restraint'
August 16, 2001 - 10:21pm -- autonomedia
Louis Lingg writes: "Niels Ferguson is a professional cryptographer living in the Netherlands. He recently broke Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) system. HDCP is a cryptographic system that encrypts video on the DVI bus.
He found that "HDCP is fatally flawed...The flaws in HDCP are not hard to find. As I like to say: 'I was just reading it and it broke.'"
Fear of prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is preventing Niels from publishing his findings. In Censorship in action: why I don't publish my HDCP results he explains why, and discusses flaws in the DMCA and its adverse impact on academic freedom and freedom of speech."
August 16, 2001 - 10:21pm -- autonomedia
Louis Lingg writes: "Niels Ferguson is a professional cryptographer living in the Netherlands. He recently broke Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) system. HDCP is a cryptographic system that encrypts video on the DVI bus.
He found that "HDCP is fatally flawed...The flaws in HDCP are not hard to find. As I like to say: 'I was just reading it and it broke.'"
Fear of prosecution by the U.S. Justice Department under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is preventing Niels from publishing his findings. In Censorship in action: why I don't publish my HDCP results he explains why, and discusses flaws in the DMCA and its adverse impact on academic freedom and freedom of speech."