[Dtb-talk] NLS Digital Books encryption

[Aaron Cannon]

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To be fair, I have seen a few audio books on the torrent sites that were
obviously ripped from the NLS recordings.  Still, book piracy, while it
exists, is nothing in comparison to movie or music piracy.  It's not for
lack of availability; anyone who haunts the binaries news groups can tell
you that.  Rather, it's simply that they aren't that popular.

Anyway, all the DRM in the world won't stop someone from doing something
like this in future.  It's just a matter of connecting a patch cable to
whatever digital book player we have, and pressing record on the computer.
It might be a little easier with the digital books, as there's no cassettes
to turn over.  So, one could simply let the recording run all night or
whatever.  But anyway, that's almost certainly what the person who ripped
the cassettes did.

The only hacker-proof DRM is the self-defeating kind, I.E. only if no one
can play the content is the DRM totally hacker-proof.

Aaron


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From: <DanFlasar at aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] NLS Digital Books encryption


>I have to agree.  10 years ago when I met a fellow from Denmark during  a
> DAISY presentation at C-SUN, he told me that digital audio books on CD-ROM
> were
> aleady available.  10 years ago!  I don't think Europeans are  more or
> less
> prone to copying than anyone else is - and let's be frank - we're  talking
> about
> BOOKS HERE!!!
>    Movies are duplicated, music on CDs are pirated, but has  anybody ever
> heard of BOOKS being pirated? Is there a big market out there for a
> narrated
> version of Gravity's Rainbow?   Is Tom Clancy worried about  his books
> appearing
> in bazaar stalls in Manila?    Book readers  are conscientious people.  If
> there's a way we can support our favorite  authors, we will.
>     And given BookShare's success with the scanning  and OCRing of
> copyrighted materials, why doesn't that apply to the NLS?
>     It looks to me that there was a lot of unnecessary  political
> anticipations going on in the development of this project.
>
>
>
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