Can I push my luck and trouble you to explain a little further? The
books are encrypted/packed until you unpack them with the tool,
yes...but that's just the delivery mechanism. Think fancy encrypted
ZIP archive. Once you unpack them (once) with the free tool you can
use the books with a DAISY player. I guess I don't see what the
problem is. Seems a little like objecting to an encrypted ZIP archive
or similar. Am I missing something?
Joe
On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:43 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Bookshare requires you to use their unpack tool. If you don't,
then the book acts only as a nice little real estate stealer.
Kinda useless if you ask me.
On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi Travis,
We don't plan on withdrawing support for RFBD books as long as
RFBD continues to allow katieplayer as an option. And thanks for
the responses on same - we need to know. BTW, I'm not staunchly
DRM - we're just not interested in developing for any obscure
schemes or having to buy our way in to support same. We're
interested in providing playback of non-proprietary standards like
DAISY. DRM schemes for this kind of content should be similarly
open and standard (if it's the type of DRM that needs to be built
into a player). No security-through-obscurity stuff and no using
DRM as a way to limit/centralize availability of compatible
players and keep prices high.
What do you mean about Bookshare's proprietary format? The
majority of their books are DAISY 3. I know you said you won't
respond to any threads on this topic. But can I come at you from a
different angle? You're OK with DAISY 3 right? That's not a
proprietary format.
As for the rest of your feature requests - I really and seriously
am putting all of this stuff in a file. It gets ranked in a list
we maintain and we consider each request as we come to it. I'll
check out the links you kindly included.
Much thanks,
Joe
