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

[Seth Johnson]

I guess I would say the thing is just making sure that "DRM" is not
copyright.  Then they would be doing it in a world that sees it as only
an unnecessary constraint imposed on users of some idiot box devices.


Seth

-----Original Message-----
From: Federico Heinz <fheinz@vialibre.org.ar>
To: "Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
Cc: "Claude Almansi" <claude.almansi@gmail.com>, "a2k discuss list"
<a2k@lists.essential.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:38:07 +0200
Subject: Re: [A2k] WIPO Meeting the Needs of the Visually Impaired
Persons  (July 13 in Geneva)

> 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