[Dtb-talk] Listening to DTB Downloads

[Greg Kearney]

A couple of points.

First once you have the recording you would have a perfect digital  
master and every copy you make would itself be perfect. This is not  
like making a tape copy from a tape where quality degrades with each  
copy. Further these player will play be book unattended from start to  
finish. Once you start the recording process you could let it run by  
itself and when your software detect say a minute of silence it can be  
set to stop recording. It's not like tapes where you have to be  
tending it all the time turning the tape over putting in new ones and  
so on.

Second anyone wanting to copy books this way does not care about the  
DAISY navigation because they will be selling them to the general  
public who don't have DAISY playback devices. Anyone who did want the  
DAISY navigation would have a player anyway and legal access to the  
book so there is no market there.

This whole "we will not authorize software playback" is a solution  
looking for a problem. There has never been a serious problem with  
pirated NLS recordings and tape player for those recording have been  
sold to anyone for many years.

A simple DAISY book with the audio file and smil file names randomized  
would keep all but the most determined from gaining access to the book  
and meet the demands of the copyright act.

The NLS has spent untold amount of time and money, which has delayed  
the introduction of digital talking books in the U.S. by a decade, on  
an ineffective digital rights management sceme that can be defeated  
with a $2 patch cord.

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

On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> The thinking is that such Rube Goldberg engineering jobs wouldn't be  
> as marketable, not to mention the fact that one would lose abbl the  
> Daisy navigation.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> #- Original Message #-
> From: tim karen <tkaren at san.rr.com>
> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Date: 2008/10/31 21:22:30
> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] Listening to DTB Downloads
>
>>
>>
>> But what is to stop the same thing with the hard player? If it has an
>> earphone plug, it can do the same.
>>
>> Tim Karen
>>
>> Mike Freeman wrote:
>>> Nope. NLS has decided as a matter of policy that the encryption  
>>> algorithm will not be made available for software players due to  
>>> the danger of "reverse engineering" the books, thus violating the  
>>> copyright laws.
>>>
>>> Mike Freeman
>>>
>>> #- Original Message #-
>>> From: tim karen <tkaren at san.rr.com>
>>> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Date: 2008/10/31 18:44:48
>>> Subject: [Dtb-talk] Listening to DTB Downloads
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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