Evil Princeton Plan Thwarted

SunnComm Technologies said it will likely
sue John "Alex" Halderman, a graduate student at Princeton
University, after Halderman published a paper explaining how to defeat
CD copy protections developed by SunnComm. Halderman’s paper pointed
out SunnComm’s copy protections can be avoided simply by holding the "Shift" key
when loading the
protected CD in a computer, which prevents the protection software from
installing.

"We feel we were the victim of an unannounced agenda
and that the company has been wronged," SunComm CEO Jacobs said. "I
think the agenda is: ‘Digital property should belong to everyone on the
Internet.’

from CNet