[Dtb-talk] iPhone/iPad/iPod touch NLS Playback question

[Mike Freeman]

It ain't gonna happen!

Mike

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From: "Flint Million" <fmillion at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] iPhone/iPad/iPod touch NLS Playback question


I'd be interested myself in such a product. I'd be curious though to
see if the NLS will even go along with such an idea.

AFAIK, the NLS specifically didn't want to support any mainstream
devices, for fear that it would make their scheme more "crackable".
With all the jailbreaking going on out there on the iPhone platform,
it's just about as open as a PC platform in terms of hacking and such.
I do know that the entire NLS scheme depends on the secure storage of
the decryption keys, and thus, they do not wish to support any device
that might be easily hacked to extract such keys. I would be curious
to know if the NLS would even agree to such a project in the first
place.

FM

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> My guess is that there would be enthusiastic interest from patrons.
>
> Since there are several players for NLS digital books, I'm assuming
> there is a process for getting devices approved by NLS. I'm not sure
> if this process anticipated mainstream devices like the iPhone.
>
> I do know that this process has, so far anyway, specifically placed
> personal computers ouside consideration.
>
> I'd suggest reaching out to the viphone at googlegroups.com (list of
> blind iphone users) to find out about patron interest.
>
> I'm looking forward to this myself, it would be pretty cool.
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:33:43AM +0800, Greg Kearney wrote:
>> Association for the Blind of Western Australia and Curtin University has 
>> developed a DAISY Playback software, DAISY Bookworm, which we expect to 
>> release June 1. The cost will be about $5.00.
>>
>> This software was developed to play our books and those of Vision 
>> Australia and other libraries using non encrypted books. Now that we have 
>> this we would like to ask if there any interest in the U.S. in such 
>> devices playing NLS books? If so we would need to investigate how to get 
>> the devices approved with our software.
>>
>> So I figured I would ask first and see if there is enough interest before 
>> putting a great deal of programming time into it.
>>
>>
>> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
>> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
>> PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 
>> 6100
>> Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
>> Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
>> Email: greg.kearney at guidedogswa.com.au
>> Email: gkearney at gmail.com
>>
>>
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