The security "hole" in the Audible.com system is the same one that the NLS
system is trying to avoid. If you download an audible.com book and then
burn it to disk, the process strips the encoding off of it. You can play
the disk in any cd player, rip the disk back to your computer and store
the
book in a "clean" mp3 format, etc. It's a lot of steps to take to get
around the copyright protections, but it can be done. This is why NLS
wants
the books to ONLY be accessible on a player of some sort. You download to
your computer, but your key is on your device, so you can't actually play
the book on the computer, but only on the device. For this reason, you
have
to have a working device to sign up and start downloading books. The key
is
coded to the type / brand of device you are using.
--Christy
http://caution-blind-driver.blogspot.com/
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Can anyone explain why and / or how Audible has managed to successfully
make audio-formatted books securely available securely to blind-users,
but that NLS has not been able?
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