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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Yes, or just delete the TTS flag which is not encrypted and can be removed without decrypting the ebook.
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. |
Actually I think it's rather a
clear-cut legal case for exemption:
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Literary works distributed in e-book format when all existing e-book editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format. (Revised from a similar exemption approved in 2003.)
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In other words
the LAW SAYS if all existing ebook editions/releases of a book/work have TTS disabled then you can LEGALLY CIRCUMVENT/HACK the DRM to enable it.
Audiobook, by definition, is
not an ebook so it does not count ergo this is pure and simple: greed, once again, shot itself in the foot
and just gave us a legal reason to hack the DRM of these ebooks. 
If they indeed turning off TTS then it's the usual stupidity a' la Hollywood-mob at its best - reminds me to the retarded and failed policies of the RIAA/MPAA...
Audiobooks are the past - never even understood just who the hell buys them anyway -, they have to let them stand up on their own.
If they want to be so anal about TTS then they should just release TTS-enabled editions of ebooks otherwise they are handing over their DRM to the masses for legal hacking.
Well, not that they lose too much
DRM does not work anyway.