Dane, the problem you're going to run into is that the folks (at least
in the us) won't give permission for daisy reading things anymore.
Last convention I went to several years ago, I'd asked about getting
permission to create a daisy reader product, and was told they have no
interest in having anyone else make daisy products, because they have
enough. This to me just seems backwards, but it's typical of
business. Folks are of course free to build opensource daisy reading
devices (I've considered doing it with the propeller boards I have
here from parallax) but the whole encrypted content thing would be
unsupported, because the powers at be refuse to release information on
how to decrypt the daisy content. My guess is that they don't want
such information in opensource products, because then anyone anywhere
could build their own player, and bypass the rediculous prices they're
charging for such here in the us. Admittedly, it's not impossible to
get keys for devices free, but it isn't exactly easy either, and those
devices have to be supported ones such as humanware, or nls devices.
In general, if it's encrypted daisy content, then forget it, unless
you're a client of nls or (in some cases) rfb&d, you're out of luck.
To me, this just seems silly, but history is full of similar events,
so it doesn't surprise me in the least.
The basic daisy format is perfectly usable by anyone, (it's an iso or
rfc or something, which is available to anyone to use, but the whole
encrypted portion is restricted to only certain circles, and the
average user who wants to build their own device is not allowed into
those circles.
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