05-14-2009, 01:11 PM | #16 | |
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This makes little sense to me though I must admit the aaverage brain capacity of US corporations is so low nowadays - the "greed" area rules everything -that I can imagine any sort of idiotic step like this. |
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05-14-2009, 01:23 PM | #17 | |
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I suppose that deleting the TTS flag might still be “circumvention” as far as the DMCA is concerned, but Amazon really has not tried very hard to enforce TTS disabling. There is also currently an explicit anti-circumvention exemption for TTS in ebooks, but it is so poorly written that it is difficult to tell if it applies to Kindle ebooks. |
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05-14-2009, 01:29 PM | #18 |
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What I get out of that is the more eBooks sold by Amazon that have TTS disabled, the more eBooks we can legally strip the DRM from.
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05-14-2009, 04:10 PM | #19 | |
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My understanding is when you purchase an electronic book you have purchased the rights for the hardware/software to render the text into a presentation layer that light waves can bounce off of and be captured by your eyes. You didn't purchase the rights for the hardware/software to render the text into a presentation layer where audio waves bounce into your ears. This must be in the fine print of the contract when you click on the "Buy" button because I don't remember reading it. I'm not sure if the "Audio Right" is related to the frequency of the wave forms involved or if it's because they're being captured by ear drums instead of retinas. Probably a combination of both. Regardless these differences are apparently worth tons of money and there will be endless court battles. It was not just myself that was confused about all this. Amazon apparently didn't know this when they added text to speech functionality to the Kindle. |
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05-14-2009, 07:59 PM | #20 |
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I'm not sure that's right. From the previous posts, it seems that the TTS switch can be removed without affecting the DRM, so there isn't that reason to remove the DRM itself. The only (potentially) legitimate reason to remove DRM from an ebook is space shifting (i.e., you want to be able to read the book you bought on another device). I'm not a lawyer, but the argument was used successfully by Diamond Multimedia to defend the Rio MP3 player. In that case, the issue hinged on the fact that the electronic files were being made available for personal use.
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05-14-2009, 08:06 PM | #21 | |
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05-14-2009, 08:20 PM | #22 | |
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05-15-2009, 04:32 AM | #23 |
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That day should mean the death of "licensed audio books", not the artificial blocking of TTS technology.
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05-15-2009, 04:49 AM | #24 |
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That's about as likely as "real" actors being rendered obsolete by CGI . Really, one has to wonder if these "prophets of doom" have ever actually listened to a decent audiobook. A good one is a "performance" in every sense of the word - which is why they are generally done by actors. It's certainly not someone just sitting down and reading the book out loud as you or I might do.
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05-15-2009, 05:00 AM | #25 | |
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I would think it highly unlikely that TTS could become a real competitor for the audio alternative - at least in our lifetimes, and those of our bairns .... |
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05-15-2009, 09:21 AM | #26 |
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Thanks to those who've explained how to regain TTS on amazon books. My question is how do we do it on those topaz books? Hackers are you guys? Topaz is a nasty way to take away tts, and I've got a few books in that format.
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05-15-2009, 09:21 AM | #27 |
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Feel free to PM me the answers. I'm composing a tutorial to be hosted elsewhere for folks.
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05-15-2009, 09:33 AM | #28 |
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There is no way to tell without an example of a TOPAZ ebook with TTS disabled. Can you point to one on Amazon? In the case of AZW, the sample versions also apparently have TTS disabled. Let me know if this is the case for TOPAZ.
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05-15-2009, 10:14 AM | #29 |
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Who's "right" is it?
Author/Publisher: Their position seems to be that a book being read by anyone other than the purchaser is a performance. Therefore they retain the "right" to this form of their intelectual property. More to the point, they believe a machine produced by a 3rd party that is sold to the public and that reads their book is conducting a public performance. Consumer: Their position is that they have the right to read their book outloud, they can also have someone else of their choosing read the book to them, and that this "someone else" can include a machine. The consumer believes this is their right as long as it is for private use. Amazon: Their position is that copyright laws may favor the the Author/Publisher or it may favor the Consumer, but DMCA laws make both of these positions mute. They believe they are within their right under DMCA to side with the Author/Publisher and disable TTS and there is nothing the consumer can do about it. JSWolf: His position is that the DMCA has a provision that allows the removal of DRM if the DRM is preventing the handicapped from accessing the book. This exception does not specify that it is limited to only the handicapped, so Jon believes it applies to everyone. DaleDe: His position is that JSWolf is nuts. Last edited by Daithi; 05-15-2009 at 10:16 AM. |
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We could do without the personal attacks ....
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