Computer Scientists Back Scholar's Challenge to Music Industry

Computer scientists filed legal papers last month in support of a Princeton University cryptographer and his team of scholars as they prepared to disseminate their research on cracking a safeguard that limits access to digital music.

Edward W. Felten, an associate professor of computer science, headed the research project that uncovered weaknesses in the technology, which creates what is known as a digital watermark. But Scott Craver, one of Mr. Felten's graduate students and a member

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