May 11, 2001
Professor Sets Off Furor With Planned Speech on Encrypted Music
A computer-science professor at Princeton University who last month jettisoned a planned speech about unscrambling encrypted digital music told the audience that he did so because the recording industry had threatened to sue him and the university, among others. Industry groups deny the accusation.
The scientist, Edward W. Felten, was scheduled to address an international conference in Pittsburgh about how he and other researchers from Princeton and Rice Universities had succeeded in
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