Stardate 20010606.1603 (On Screen): Here's more coverage on Professor Felten's suit against RIAA, SDMI and Verance. What's particularly interesting is the quote near the end from Verance:
"Verance was officially notified by SDMI that of over 150 attempts against our technology during the SDMI Challenge, none of the attempts, including those submitted by Professor Felten and his team, were successful," said a statement from Verance chairman David Leibowitz.Problem with this is that Professor Felten's team didn't submit their result to the SDMI challenge because the license agreement specified that if they did so then they couldn't also publish. What Verance is really doing here is damage control: their system sucks and got cracked and they're trying to prevent word from getting out. (Decide for yourself whether Professor Felten's team really did crack Verance's watermark system.)
Update: Now RIAA has responded: "What? Why is he suing us? We never threatened him. We're friends of his; we sent him that letter just because we were worried he was getting himself into something and we didn't want our friend to end up in jail. After all, he's a friend of ours." Hmmph. (discuss)
