[A2k] WIPO Meeting the Needs of the Visually Impaired Persons (July 13 in Geneva)

[Federico Heinz]

On 14/07/2009, Seth Johnson wrote:
> If common sense prevails in the sense described, it would serve the
> broader opposition to "DRM" as much as the interests of the
> reading-disabled.

Not really: these people were saying those asking Amazon to disable
text-to-speech were fighting a losing battle. But they didn't put Kindle's DRM
in question, and I am pretty certain that the Kindle's DRM was one of the
reasons why they don't oppose it altogether.

In any case, re-enabling Kindle's text-to-speech feature may have the effect of
putting print-disabled people in a similar situation as people who can use
print, and maybe then they will join us in the general fight against DRM,
instead of trying to carve exceptions only for themselves.

	Fede