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Western Digital drive is DRM-crippled for your safety
Posted by Regeneration on December 8th, 2007, 09:48 AM

Western Digital's 1TB My Book World Edition external hard drive has been crippled by DRM for your safety. A kindly Reg reader tipped us off that the remote-access HDD won't share media files over network connections. Which is, as you can see here, the entire stinking point of it. It's a scary world full of potentially unlicensed media. We're fortunate there's a hard drive vendor willing to step forward and do some indiscriminate policing for us.

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So far WD and Seagate are thumbs down. Any more hard drive manufacturers want to $^*( up?
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holy shit!
dark days ahead dudes. it may be time to look for a new hobbie...

Last edited by DOOMJESUS; December 8th, 2007 at 12:14 PM..
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Originally Posted by DOOMJESUS View Post
holy shit!
dark days ahead dudes. it may be time to look for a new hobbie...
Nice post and unfortunately holds a lot of truth !!
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fortunately i'm a FLAC head but this is bound to screw things up for a lot of people. i will damn sure never invest in one of these units and i was seriously contemplating it up until now...
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WD sucks anyways, they'll wisen up when they see their sales fall through the floor
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wait, does this drive work without the access anywhere software or do you have to install it to be able to use the drive?
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DRM and formats blacklist is super-lame. The entire DRM idea is illegal as well; it violates consumer’s rights and many laws.
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