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Western Digital Network Drives Crippled -- No Serving Any Multimedia F iles
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:33:43 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Boing Boing. [snip] 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". [snip] More: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/06/western-digital-netw.html All I can say is just... wow. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHWE6Yq1pz9mNUZTMRAhKAAJwMUItqguLx/Av8Rb9Z418U1sg2xQCfZ3Aa yp1LW+iWH2/m5ukTq49gBL4= =Cl/B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _____________________________________________________________ Click now to shop a huge selection of name brand women's boots! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2221/fc/Ioyw6i4ssRiM3oWSmmN9bfdfYO2icE3TBlHRlUFKATJ7qgdCUAu5nC/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Western Digital Network Drives Crippled -- No Serving Any Multimedia F iles Paul Ferguson (Dec 06)
- RE: Western Digital Network Drives Crippled -- No Serving AnyMultimedia F iles Jamz_Yaneza (Dec 06)
- Re: Western Digital Network Drives Crippled -- No Serving Any Multimedia F iles John C. A. Bambenek, CISSP (Dec 06)