What is Professor Feltens role in this case?
Professor Felten is one of the plaintiffs in EFF’s challenge of the DMCA. The noted scientist is the leader of a research team that participated in the Secure Digital Music Initiative’s (SDMI) “Public Challenge” (also know as “Hack SDMI”) and successfully defeated the technology. His team authored, “Reading Between the Lines: Lessons from the SDMI Challenge,” explaining their research findings that was accepted for publication at the 4th International Information Hiding Workshop Conference in April 2001 (http://www.cert.org/IHW2001/). Just prior to the conference, the Princeton Professor received a letter from Matt Oppenheim from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) that threatened a lawsuit against Professor Felten’s team and their universities and the workshop organizers if the paper was published. EFF is asking the court to declare that Felten and the rest of his research team have the right to publish their paper and di
