I think the DRM is taken care of by having to provide documentation of disability and by being allowed to register as a subscriber in the first place. The password was just redundancy. That is not to say that redundancy is a bad thing. Engineers are well known for building in redundancy into their creations for purposes of safety. That is, if one thing fails then there is a backup plan. On the BARD site there never has been a password necessary for unzipping their books. Their redundancy is found in having to agree to the pledge every month. I can only suppose that the Bookshare staff talked it over and decided that entering the password each and every time was unnecessary.
On 4/22/2012 11:02 AM, Ali Al-hajamy wrote:
That is a bit surprising. For as long as I've been a Bookshare member, I have automatically typed in my password as soon as I started to unzip files, which has lead to me winding up in unusual places because I wrote it in when it wasn't required, such as in a public domain or creative commons book. It's just a reflex by now. I always thought Bookshare was mandated to have those as a form of DRM on their books, along with all the watermarks in the files, and things of that sort. I'm guessing there are no other changes to file downloading we should know about at the moment?On 22-Apr-12 10:47, Ann Parsons wrote:Hi all,What do you mean? You mean we don't have to give our password any more when unzipping books? Interesting. I'm going to have to try that one.Ann P.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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