[A2k] L&E and DRM/ TPMs - parking lot analogy

[Richard M Stallman]

    Not only those organizations do overcome DRM: virtually everyone does, thanks
    to the fact that DMCA did not succeed in its aim to make circumvention devices
    unavailable... only illegal to produce and distribute.

I think that is overstates the success of the resistance.  For some
DRM formats, such as DVDs, the decoding software is widely available.
For others, such as Blueray, it is rare or nonexistent.

If organizations for the blind can obtain the handcuff-breaking
software for e-book formats, they can easily convert them into forms
that blind readers can use -- without asking for any special cooperation
from publishers and without giving those publishers any concessions.
They can distribute these books to blind people without DRM, since
the existing legal exceptions for blind people don't require DRM.

If they want to go further, and add markup that makes the books more
useful, they can simply do it.  They can even cooperate between
countries in doing it.  The publishers won't dare sue N organizations
for the blind for working together to lawfully distribute better books
to blind people in N countries.

That would employ the same dynamic ("how could you possibly refuse to
help the blind") that some have tried to use in favor of the treaty,
but turning it against the DRM practitioners instead of us.  And it
would help blind people more and better than this WIPO treaty.