[Dtb-talk] DTB Here and There

[T. Joseph Carter]

Grover,

I can and do extract 4track with a computer pretty easy.  You have to 
split left and right, cut the speed in half, reverse the "right 
channel" of both sides, and remember that the 3-4 sides are encoded 
on the opposite sides of the tape from where you'd expect them to be 
(hence the need to reverse the audio).

Joseph

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On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:54:49PM -0500, Grover Zinn wrote:
>I've been thinking for various reasons about accessibility of etexts 
>for text-to-voice and other such things (including the Amazon Kindle 
>situation).
>
>I did not know DRM was the "problem" with NLS downloads; I do know 
>that the Milestone 312 (a pretty spectacular piece of hardware with 
>the addons) will not play NLS (and they designed it this way, given 
>that they are European).  I would think that the "lockout" via 
>registration for BARD should let the NLS "control" the distribution 
>of texts in Daisy format.  With the 4track tapes, there was a bit of 
>a limitation that you have to have a 4track player, but there is no 
>way to lock the tapes (as far as I know).
>
>The "management" of etexts to prevent text to voice (see the Barnes 
>and Noble ebook web site) is interesting; is this just publisher 
>control, or is the "copyright law" on their side/ (I've done 
>copyright law for a collegiate setting, and it is complicated and in 
>some cases yet to be tested in court).
>
>A bit of a ramble.  But this is a very interesting and crucial 
>question.  Other than protecting the talking book market, what is the 
>problem???  (Profits are important to companies   :-)   )
>
>best
>
>Grover Zinn
>
>Grover Zinn
>William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus
>former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
>Oberlin College
>Oberlin, OH 44074
>grover.zinn at oberlin.edu
>
>
>
>On Dec 12, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:34:56 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>What you may have noticed or
>>>been told is NLS possibly giving RNIB access to the original 
>>>DAISY without
>>>the DRM.
>>
>>It was CNIB, but that's neither here nor there. So OK, who puts the
>>DRM on these things, and why do we need to wait until that's done
>>while other countries get it without?  This sounds remarkably like
>>buying drugs from other countries which were made in the U.S. but not
>>distributable in the U.S.
>>
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