SunnComm won't sue Princeton student over "shift key" paper [ip][fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5089448.html

SunnComm won't sue grad student
By Declan McCullagh
October 10, 2003, 9:07 AM PDT

In an abrupt reversal, SunnComm Technologies said Friday that it would not 
sue a Princeton University graduate student who had published a paper that 
describes how to bypass CD copy protection technology simply by pressing 
the Shift key.

SunnComm had angrily assailed Princeton doctoral student John "Alex" 
Halderman just a day before, claiming that his academic paper was "at best, 
duplicitous and, at worst, a felony." The company had pledged to file a 
civil suit against Halderman under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 
(DMCA) and lobby federal prosecutors to indict him on criminal charges.

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