Dumbass litigation averted, narrowly.
SunnComm Says It Won't Sue Halderman. SunnComm, which had previously said it planned to sue Alex Halderman for publishing a critique of SunnComm's CD anti-copying technology, has now backed off. According to Josh Brodie's story in today's Daily Princetonian, SunnComm president Peter Jacobs has now said... [Freedom to Tinker]
This company claimed Halderman damaged its reputation and violated the DCMA. It's impossible to do both at once, since the damaged reputation is Halderman's fault only if his description of the "protection mechanism" is inaccurate, in which case he has not circumvented it; if he has circumvented it, then his description of how poorly it works is true and the damage to their reputation is their own fault.
This is a rare example of a vendor underestimating the intelligence of the public and losing money because of it. The difficulty with making money from dumbass copy protection scemes is that it only takes one person to identify a flaw and make a copy, at which point most people who receive a copy won't have to know how to came about to get their copy. Damned outliers! ;-)
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