With DRM books, there is nothing to prevent someone from transferring the books to CD and then giving them away... or even selling them. If you really want to pirate them, which I certainly don't, agreed it could be done. I am so thankful that products like the Bookport have made books so much more accessible to us! The BP has certainly changed the way I read books!
At 12:35 PM 6/7/2007, Walt Smith wrote:
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. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lana Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:22 AM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 I'm probably wrong about this; since it seems so out of date; so tell me where I've gone wrong. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.11/837 - Release Date: 6/6/2007 2:03 PM
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