Well, what I was refering to is the inherent brokenness of such efforts. Look at DVD for instance, did the encryption scheme help there? How is the encryption done anway? Does every user get his own key, or is the key embedded in the reader again? "David B Andrews" <DANDREWS@ngwmail.des.state.mn.us> writes: > While your cynicism is partially understandable, it is also somewhat > misdirected. Pressure to encrypt comes from the > publishing/e-publishing crowd, not from the DAISY Consortium itself. That at least I hoped to be true. Sadly enough, it seems to be a general trend of the industry. > We would rather not have to do it! How about convincing publishers that this way of doing things is wrong? We are creating a real barrier here for Free Computing usage again if we let this continue without any resistance. If I see it correctly, DAISY is supposed to be the future, single standard for e-books for the blind. If all the major DAISY content providers encrypt their DAISY content with a proprietary scheme which requires binary-only code, we 1. Have to hope again that those companies support us (Linux) or 2. Are forced to use Windows machines (and therefore, forced to pay Windows License costs, and screen reader license costs) This is a non-trivial problem IMO. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list