Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
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Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#2Legally, I guess. Because thankfully, it's not hard to create PDF copies of any ebook even in 2021.
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#3Where can I get these DRM free eBooks?
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#4Where can I get these DRM free eBooks?
the pirate bay & friends.
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#5Where can I get these DRM free eBooks?
The Calibre ebook managemet app has plugins available that can strip both Amazon and Adobe DRM.
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#6Great. Now how about the rest of us?
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#7This is terrible, and while IANAL I’m confused why it doesn’t fall under ADA requirements to provide accessible versions of materials - especially school materials.
Also, can people really claim with a straight face that running a book through text-to-speech is the same as a real audiobook (that’s often a voice actor, right?)?
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#8Where can I get these DRM free eBooks?
Re: Blind people won the right to break eBook DRM, but they'll have to do it again
#9Where can I get these DRM free eBooks?
Libreture maintains a list of DRM free stores [1].