Techdirt wrote a lot about the problems of DRM, which is inefficient and cumbersome. But for millions of people with visual impairments, the "inconvenience" represent something much deeper, much more serious. Someone who started writing eloquently of this problem is Rupert Goodwin. It is one of the most respected technology UK journalists and also, unfortunately, lost his sight. As indicated in a powerful new piece, things should get better for the visually impaired in the Internet age:

never been a better time to become blind we're busy converting the digital world and digital is very easy to convert

Courses

. Did not work that way, thanks to the widespread use of DRM in ebooks

with DRM, the economic model of supplier goes beyond an application or a service. It is designed to limit the client to use something only in the form approved by the content provider, and offers legal support.

If I can not use a specific word processor, I can find another. But if I can not read a particular book, which is read on a particular platform and the platform can be read to me, I'm in trouble.

describe their attempts to get an ebook that was purchased in a way that could read. After half an hour of wasted effort - which included receiving marketing messages rather ironic that you say "enjoy the experience" and "enjoy your book" - what did most people to at the beginning: he broke the DRM. As he points out:

I dare say that this is against the terms and conditions of one or more of the many unreadable EULA I clicked in the process of trying to be a responsible consumer digital. But the author was paid and nobody lost - except for me, in terms of lost time and suffered mental misery

also says something very important that all those who work in businesses with employees. DRM might consider: