[bookport] Re: Fun facts
- From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:20:59 -0400
Oh, there is some content where this is not an option, or the publisher
will not allow us to use any of their content on the device. We already
see this situation for RFBD and audible.com.
>>> dogriver@xxxxxxxx Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:54:02 PM >>>
It may be, but sometimes that's the only way to get permission to use
certain types of content. With NLS's impending
sometime-in-the-Millennium
move to digital, any hope that the Bookport has of being an option for
NLS
books lies in this sort of measure, as NLS will no doubt insist on it.
An
evil it may be, but I submit it's a necessary one.
Bruce
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Kevin Jones wrote:
> I hate unit specific encryption in all cases, that's just not the way
to go,
> it's the path of the paranoid.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Richard Ring
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:07 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Fun facts
>
> I must add my concern here. This idea would gravely reduce the
> flexibility and functionality of the unit by limiting the options
that
> users currently have. Having said that, let's wait until APH weighs
in
> on this one before we jump to conclusions.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Buhrow
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:00 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Fun facts
>
>
> Hello. I sure hope you're wrong and Springer and/or APH does
> not
> follow this course of action for transfers of non-proprietary data,
> including Daisy books from Bookshare. The implication of what you
say
> also
> means that if you have two bookports, you couldn't share CF cards
> between
> them.
> As a Bookport user, and as a guy who talks to a number of folks
> about
> technology for the blind, I would have serious reservations about
> recommending the Bookport or the Bookcourier if unit-specific
encryption
> becomes standard for all book transfers. Not only would it represent
a
> new
> level of inconvenience for users on a number of levels, especially
those
> who own or use multiple devices, but would add a significant support
> burden
> to APH and/or Springer, helping users diagnose problems with files
they
> couldn't examine on the Bookport, or copy elsewhere for testing.
> Once again, I can't express how bad of an idea I think this is,
> and
> for reasons that I don't think will become obvious until it's
already
> done,
> and the Bookport becomes yet another technology footnote in history.
> Please, no!!! Remember, the laser disk!
>
> -Brian
> On Oct 25, 12:57am, <chris.BP.FL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> } >From some discussion directly with Springer about some problems
and
> } questuions about BC and (Dutch) Daisy 2.02 books and writing
directly
> to CF
> } I understood some (or all?) data types will in future be (or are
> already?)
> } encrypted, using the BC serial no. to derive some encrypting key.
If
> done
> } so, CF from BC and BP will not be interchangabe for encrypted data
> without
> } special provisions in BC and/or BP, which probably can only be
made
> by
> } Springer and/or APH.
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