[CEUD-ICT] Kindle 2: Controversy over text-to-speech function

[Joshue O Connor]

Barry McMullin wrote:
> Hi Folks -
> 
>>From the "... I almost choked on my cornflakes" department:
> 
> As many of you will know, Amazon have just launched the "Kindle
> 2", the second generation of their e-book device.  One of the
> significant new features is that it now has "experimental"
> text-to-speech functionality. 
> I don't quite have words to describe my reaction to this.  Or, at
> least, not any polite ones!

+1

It's a pretty disgusting stance alright to claim a breach of copyright
if a blind or visually impaired person listens to the contents of a
book. If this kind of reasoning continues we will have the thought
police at our doors when it comes to reading a bed time story. I would
laugh if it wasn't so depressingly prescient.

Josh

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