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Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives

Posted by Zonk on from the drm-means-don't-read-disk dept.

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.

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  1. Re:"The Ironside" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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  2. Re:So rename your files and go on about your busin by unitron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    --

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