Western Digital Network Drives Crippled -- No Serving Any Multimedia F iles

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Boing Boing.

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This is the most extreme example I've seen yet of tech companies crippling
data devices in order to please Hollywood: 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".

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More:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/06/western-digital-netw.html

All I can say is just... wow.

- - ferg

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