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Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives
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.
file types restrict you.
^Satire.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
government host your files for free +)
You should check out some of my .txt files
Metallica_Enter_Sandman.txt is a great "read"
Read my Very Short "Stories"
We don't need no steenkin' customers!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
I object to that. I am not a cripple.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
My Book(TM) World Edition(TM)
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
I can't wait to hear about all the noobs out there complaining about their "crashed" computers because they tried to open a 700MB file in NotePad... : p
This guy's the limit!
I think its because advanced aliens are against file sharing. If we don't have good copyrights, then the planet will be vaporized, as advanced civilizations basically sell travel books to each other. Piracy threatens the Galactic economy. You do know that the original Cylon - Human dispute was over DRM?
This is my sig.
Do those trigger the self-destruct feature or something? Who in the hell do they think they are?
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Give him a break, at least he didn't use a '$' even once.
I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
That means nothing to me! How many Libraries of Congress, please - a relevant unit of measure if there ever was one.
Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
Hey, I didn't see Ogg Vorbis on the list. I demand Linux equality!
I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
Or, just set associations so .REM files open with Media Player Classic.
:-)
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!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
But....but.....i need to share my oog files! how else can i communicate with the cave people?
Exactly. There are much better technologies available for that purpose. I'm sure we can find a way to adapt this technology from network communications to file systems.
LOL. Now you'll never know whether it was your point or the "Microsoft eats babies" remark that got you your insightful mod.
"Algebraical symbols are used when you don't know what you are talking about" - BCS
They aren't "crippled", they are "functionally challenged".
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
That's GNU/Stallman, you insensitive clod.
I dunno. I sure wouldn't want 512 men-in-black hounding me .