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Western Digital Network Drives Crippled -- No Serving Any Multimedia Files

Via Boing Boing.

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".

posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2007 11:21:00 AM