Re: FYI: DRM is Evil. Very, Very, Very Evil
@jaybird got your email; will deal with it soon. Deluged at the mo. And I agree with your stance; as a rule, cutting yourself off doesn't help any if you have the means to drop the DRM. Although of course I wish Audible wouldn't use it to start with.
Our libraries offer books from Overdrive, which uses MP3, or on unprotected USB DAISy sticks. I think it's a shame that they screw you up like that in the US, but I suppose the players you need are already specialised, so it's less bad. Of course, it's not good, either, and I'm fairly sure I'd feel the pain sooner or later if I were over there. Then again, my government pays me to get my own technology, so there are less perverse incentives forcing me into one format over another, or one player over another, and there is likely to be a much better case for supporting multiple players and therefore DRM would be a whole lot less useful. As it stands I can listen to the RNIB's talking books o n an off-the-shelf MP3 player, which cost me almost nothing. Fabulous. This is a sad story, made worse by the writer's choice to avoid iOS intentionally.
iTunes DRM is only present on movies. Their audiobooks come from Audible, so buy from Audible direct. Music is unprotected.
If you email me, I'll send you links to inAudible. At the moment I'd struggle to post it to a server outside the US which would make it vulnerable to the wankers that be, so we'll have to keep it secret until such time as I can host it at home.
@Figment: I wouldn't say I was negative, I just think DRM is unjust. I've experienced too many cases of it failing to do what it claims, and of course this is particularly the case for blind people because DRM schemes aren't designed with us in mind. Would I choose to throw everyone under a bus for a DRM scheme that actually worked and was the only
way to get access to stuff? Yeah, probably. But it would be a shame, because it would still be unjust. I don't want to live in a Brave New World under the shelter of materialist consumerism if I can possibly help it. A gram is better than a damn, and all that.
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