Crippled Western Digital Hard Drives Unacceptable
Friday, December 07, 2007
Wow. Western Digital’s new network drives are crippled. WD is disabling sharing of any avi, divx, mp3, mpeg, and many other files on its network connected devices; due to “unverifiable media license authentication”.
So, what exactly are the network drives going to be used for? Sharing DOC files? I'm sure customers will be beating down our doors trying to get one of these drives.
We sell Hitachi here, anyways.
We saw this news today on Wired here.
A list of files that can not be shared is available on WD's site here.
Tell WD how you feel about this here.
posted by AbsoluteRaleigh @ 12:35 PM,
