[gui-talk] Yesterday's announcement from the RFB&D

[albert griffith]

Many services employing DRM use a download manager of some kind.  Audible,
Amazon, Net Library, and the list goes on.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jerry Richer
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:01 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Yesterday's announcement from the RFB&D

         I'm really frustrated with RFBD.  It just seems as though they've
lost
sight of their mission.  I started with them with five inch tape reels.
They could make reading a book so easy but instead they insist on
proprietary formats, passwords and all sorts of road blocks that have to be
negotiated before you can actually get to where you can listen to a book.
They're worried about compromising their agreement with the publishers and
letting their books fall into the wrong hands.  If you could read a regular
printed book why would you pay money to read an inferior audio version of
the book read by someone who mumbles and doesn't know how to read the
material
correctly.
     OK so now you can download DAISY books.  This sounds good.  But why do
I need this download manager nonsense.  Yesterday I tried to download my
first DAISY book.  The download manager keeps crashing with that having to
close message and do I want to send an error report.  What's wrong with FTP
and MP3.  Why do they have to complicate everything?

               Jerry


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