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Western Digital network drives crippled — no serving any multimedia files

Posted on December 7th, 2007 at 7:46 by John Sinteur in category: Intellectual Property, What were they thinking?, ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ -- Write a comment

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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’. 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?”

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