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Old 05-09-2007, 04:50 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Moonraker
Format shifting is just that -- be it converting your cds to mp3s to play on your mp3 player, or scanning a paper book that you own to read on your ebook reader. If the laws say differently in some countries -- then that law's an ass.

I thought the Human Rights laws made it illegal to discriminate against the disabled but publishers of ebooks are still not allowing a "text to speech" facility.
Nor do they allow printing of ebooks - printing in a large font would enable many people with impaired eyesight to read them.
According to the law it's ok to break the DRM if the DRM prevents the speech option from functioning. So CLIT is legal to use to break the DRM of LIT files because the DRM prevents speech.
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