Apparently, a set of middlemen somewhere isn't getting paid off when the Kindle does text to speech for you - read the utterly ridiculous assertions by Roy Blount, Jr. as to why allowing publishers to disallow text to speech is a good thing. Right. Because you just know that Kindle owners have been planning to stay up nights recording the text to speech renditions (in real time, no less) off to disk, and then heading off to Pirate Bay with the resulting mp3s.

Sure. And I'm the Queen of Romania. Lessig has this one right.

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