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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
I am not a lawyer, but the way I read this is that you may now be allowed to circumvent the access controls on e-books that don't have a "real-aloud" function or that don't work on your particular e-reader device. Any comments?
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That's how I would read it. Of course, I also read the "fair use" part of Copyright law as saying that we could do that already.
Unfortunately, I believe that the first company that produces a program that, say, de-LITs an eBook and then reads it aloud, is probably going to get sued by Microsoft, who will drag the case out for years, bleeding that company dry, then dropping the case before the judge declares that Microsoft is wrong.