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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Actually, no; the exemptions do not make it illegal for producers to create those barriers; it just makes it legal for consumers to circumvent those barriers in certain circumstances.
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I agree. Consumers have the legal right to enable TTS, publishers feel they must disable TTS (based on contracts with authors written years ago), Amazon did not have to enable TTS but once they did they almost have to allow publishers to disable in on a per book basis (not because of copyright but because of their contracts with publishers).
The bad part is that MobileRead has to avoid explicit instructions about how to circumvent TTS disabling, because Amazon or the publishers might sue. It does not matter that consumers would probably win a case if they were ever sued for circumvention. It might in any case still be illegal to aid someone in circumventing the TTS flag.