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The article focuses on a declaration filed by the U.S.-based Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in the federal court as of October 2001 regarding Felten v. Recording Industry Association of America case. Researcher Edward Felten and his fellow researchers at Princeton University, had entered a contest sponsored by Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), inviting people to attempt to crack certain technologies they were considering for use in their computer system. These technologies were defeated by Felten and his fellow researchers in the challenge. The paper of the researchers "Reading Between the Lines: Lessons From the SDMI Challenge," presented by them in a symposium in August 2001, is threatened under the anticircumvention provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The concern of ACM in this regard, is that one of ACM's primary goals is, in submitting a declaration to minimize the possibility of being a defendant in some future anticircumvention case. The declaration describes ACM, its scholarly activities relating to publishing and the holding of conferences, and the potential implications of the anticircumvention provisions of the DMCA on what ACM does.