Legal Bearing (Score 2)

As I understand the agreement, the professors were only under the confidentiality clause if they accepted the cash settlement...They did not, and that is why the SDMI could only "Urge" them not to publish the paper, and make vague threats of legal action. They have every right to put forth their findings, after their work. Also...does it seem to anyone else that the SDMI *completely* tried to fix the contest so that no one would win? The whole point of this seems to be them trying to say "Look at our unbreakable work"...even to the extent of fixing the contest "the 'broken' oracle"