A fumbled attempt to silence a Princeton professor backfires on the recording industry. An industry group says its watermarking scheme for digital music has withstood the assault. The beleaguered music trading service is getting into bed with Bertelsmann. The SDMI saga continues.
Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection system.
But the technology insiders behind the system say hackers could kill it once and for all by participating. Talal Shamoon, a key technologist for the Secure Digital Music Initiative, says that he's found the key to protecting copyrighted tunes.