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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I have never seen text to speech enabled on a DRMed ebook (it would only be effective for LIT anyway, since the others don't have text to speech). This means that the following current, November 2006, exception from the prohibition against circumvention of access-control technology in the DMCA (see Wikipedia) probably applies to all ebooks |
I rather suspect that if it came up in court, the court would find that it applied only for handicapped people who actually needed to
use text-to-speech or specialized screen readers. It doesn't make sense that people who have no need for those specialized formats would be expressly permitted to make them anyway.