Lesson number 85,923 on why DMCA is bad. A computer science grad student at Princeton wrote a report showing the CD DRM (digital rights management, in other words, you can not backup or rip the CD to mp3s) was ineffective – it could easily be defeated by use of the ‘shift’ key. The stock of the DRM company (SunnComm) has since fallen by 20%. Now, SunnComm plans to sue the student under the DMCA and claim that SunnComm’s reputation has been falsely damaged.