Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives 315
sehlat writes "Via BoingBoing comes the news that Western Digital's My Book(TM) World Edition(TM) II, sold with promises of internet-accessible drive space, is now restricting the types of files the drive will serve up. 'Western Digital is disabling sharing of any avi, divx, mp3, mpeg, and many other files on its network connected devices; due to unverifiable media license authentication. Just wondering -- who needs a 1 Terabyte network-connected hard drive that is prohibited from serving most media files? Perhaps somebody with 220 million pages of .txt files they need to share?'" Update: 12/07 03:28 GMT by Z : To clarify, it actually seems as though this is a bad summary. The MioNET service that WD packages with the networked drives is responsible for the rights of users via the network. There are a few (obvious) ways to get around that.
In Soviet America.... (Score:3, Funny)
This makes a lot of sense. (Score:5, Funny)
^Satire.
In Soviet Russia (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So rename your files and go on about your busin (Score:5, Funny)
Metallica_Enter_Sandman.txt is a great "read"
Customers? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"The Ironside" (Score:5, Funny)
From the manufacturer's product page: (Score:5, Funny)
What it holds:
Up to 285,000 digital photos
Up to 250,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 25,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 76 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 400 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 100 hours of HD video
Re:More like... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, Time for the Tinfoil Hats? (Score:5, Funny)
False advertising? (Score:4, Funny)
What about .NFO? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A Sign of Things to Come and How to Fight. (Score:4, Funny)
220 million pages of txt? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I wouldn't. This is as stupid as it gets. (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn' scale (Score:5, Funny)
Oh sure that works great for "Shiny Happy People".REM. But then you need "Sunday, Bloody Sunday".U2 and so on - imagine the size of the file association list!
Re:Dvix? Oog? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A Sign of Things to Come and How to Fight. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A Sign of Things to Come and How to Fight. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"The Ironside" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A Sign of Things to Come and How to Fight. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why bother? (Score:2, Funny)
I dunno. I sure wouldn't want 512 men-in-black hounding me .