[bookport] Re: Returning the Bookports' back to the library tomorrow will be sad. GRIN.
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:35:17 -0400
Well, where you've gone wrong is that simply putting Talking Books into MP3
and allowing them to be downloaded would open a whole Pandora's box of
issues with regard to their wholesale distribution to people with no legal
right to have them. Moreover, the new Book Port *will* support the Digital
Talking Book format when it becomes available...that's already been
announced.
There's no system that's 100% unbreakable where keeping material out of the
hands of people not legally entitled to it is concerned, but the process can
be made as difficult and painful as possible, which is what NLS is going to
do. For example, there is nothing to keep someone from simply connecting a
patch cord from the headphone output of the new Talking Book player to the
input of their computer and recording the playback in real time, then
distributing the resulting files to anyone they want to, but that falls into
the category of difficult and painful for most people.
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Subject: [bookport] Re: Returning the Bookports' back to the library
tomorrow will be sad. GRIN.
Sounds like a good enough idea to me. A lot of states don't have access to
overdrive audio, and why couldn't regular talkingbooks be put onto mp3 files
and downloaded to readers. Yes, I know that something like that is in the
wind, but a long time from now, and we still don't know for sure it will
work with the new bookport.
I'm probably wrong about this; since it seems so out of date; so tell me
where I've gone wrong.
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