[Dtb-talk] Listening to DTB Downloads

[Greg Kearney]

The NLS has stated that they will never approve software based readers  
for their books. NLS books are severely encrypted and use a audio  
format that is all but unknown. This is do to the , mistaken in my  
opinion, beliefe that these actions will prevent piracy of the books  
or revers engineering of the decryption and playback.

The only problem with this is that anyone with access to an authorized  
player can make a digital perfect copy to the MP3 or any other format  
with nothing more than a computer and a patch cord. Think that people  
will not have access to player? Think again the current 1/2 speed four  
track players show up all the time on ebay and in thrift stores.  
Grandma dies and people just sell off her stuff including that odd  
thing she used to play her books. The new players will be even more  
prone to this as the sighted will have no idea what it is.

So if you want software based playback of NLS book you should contact  
your congressional  representatives and tell them so.

Greg Kearney
Curtin University Centre for Accessible Technology
www.cucat.org

On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:55 AM, tim karen wrote:

> Do you know if the EasyReader Software that can be purchased from  
> RFBD will play the NLS digital download books?  If not, is there any  
> software that can?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Tim Karen for Dorothy Karen
>
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