EFF to EMI: Let the Hacking Begin
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has had recent success with open letters, its recent
public challenge to Sony BMG resulting in class-action
settlement of multiple lawsuits arising from the XCP copy-protection scandal. Riding high on its influence, the EFF
has posted an open letter to major label EMI,
challenging it to authorize indiependent testing of its copy-protected discs, some of which use the same provider
(Macrovision) as in some of the Sony discs. The EFF wants EMI to publicly renounce its right to litigate against
reverse engineering under the DMCA, freeing researchers to probe the safety of EMI copy-protection before any security
holes are exploited by real, and malicious, hackers.
