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Science 3 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5493, pp. 917 - 919
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5493.917b
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SCIENCE AND COMMERCE:
Digital Music Safeguard May Need Retuning

Charles Seife

A hacker-professor says he and his graduate students have cracked the four leading methods proposed for thwarting audio pirates. The Princeton University computer scientist says his achievement shows that so-called digital watermarks--identifying signals hidden inside streams of digital data--cannot protect music from illegal copying. But the music industry begs to disagree.

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