ghost68 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Western Digital may not be the best drive company out there but this news story is BS See: http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/article...0.01.10.15.html "The problem the person had wasn't with the drive, it was with the personal private network software from MioNET and even then it is only limited to internet file sharing. [5] The hard drives, which are designed homes or small businesses with several computers, will let any machine on a local network read music and video files" The drive works great as a NAS, but it includes a feature that allows you to easliy share files and folders over the internet. If western digital made it easy to set up a 1tb file server on the internet with no content protection the riaa and mpaa would have a field day... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-536632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Thank you, Ghost! It should be stated that this is not at all an issue if used with other file-sharing software, only WD's proprietary one! Yay for Western Digital! BTW, I generally prefer Seagate because they are quieter... has WD changed? Or are they still monsters? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-536713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
koumed Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Lol, It's kinda funny, How are they gonna sell their brand new High technology Super-HardDisk where you cannot put usefull file in it? Who's gonna buy that {censored}? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-536714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrates Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Western Digital may not be the best drive company out there but this news story is BS See: http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/article...0.01.10.15.html "The problem the person had wasn't with the drive, it was with the personal private network software from MioNET and even then it is only limited to internet file sharing. [5] The hard drives, which are designed homes or small businesses with several computers, will let any machine on a local network read music and video files" The drive works great as a NAS, but it includes a feature that allows you to easliy share files and folders over the internet. If western digital made it easy to set up a 1tb file server on the internet with no content protection the riaa and mpaa would have a field day... Who cares? I should not be limited to what kind of files I can share on the internet. What if I was a musician and wanted to give away my songs to get people talking about it? I wouldn't be able to with this device. Another company I can say goodbye to buying products from. Stop giving into the MPAA and RIAA. You make way more money then the RIAA and MPAA do, you do not need to listen to them. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-536820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 i would never buy something like this... I won't be told what I can and can't do on my own computer by some two bit hardware manufacturer! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-536916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Apple is riddled with DRM, but do you own a mac or an ipod or iphone? WD makes quality hard disks. Just don't buy this one. There's no DRM on my iPod. I use it just like an external and I can move whichever files I want. Plus I have no songs from the iTunes Store. So mine isn't riddled with DRM. It starts with just this one with that hassle, or 'feature'. Pretty soon all WD externals will have the same thing. So you can't really say just don't buy this one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-536998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mithrantir Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 actually, you can say buy this one, or dont buy this one... it's the same. WD just gives you an extra way to share your files over the internet through an extra program. the other HDs just dont have that program and are limited to samba. however, it is certainly bad that the industry is going that way. apple does it (come ON, the "i dont have DRM files from iTunes" is ridiculous. apple locks their products, and everyone knows that. apple wants other ones (music companies etc) to unlock their stuff, but they dont unlock theirs. RIAA and MPIAA locks their stuff and hunts down everyone, also making a fuss about everything, which leads to that kind of things... HDs who prevent music and videos from being shared on the net. thing are certainly looking bad guys, reaaaally bad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-537022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUKKU Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Who cares? I should not be limited to what kind of files I can share on the internet. What if I was a musician and wanted to give away my songs to get people talking about it? I wouldn't be able to with this device. Another company I can say goodbye to buying products from. Oh please, if you were a musician I'd hope you would invest in the $15 a month that a decent web hosting plan costs in order to distribute your music, and not some consumer-grade external hard drive. That's the worst possible example you could give. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-537069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 come ON, the "i dont have DRM files from iTunes" is ridiculous. Oh I know they do it, not saying anything about that. But what I was saying was that I can move any kind of files, unlike the WD, and I have no DRM songs on the iPod so I don't really have that much DRM {censored} on there. Actually I have no .mpa files at all on there. I even unhid the iPod_Control folder so I can look through and copy my songs to a different computer without having to separate them in a different folder. I'm sure iTunes secretly throws in some DRM when I connect, but it hasn't really bothered me enough for me to notice. Oh and I agree with stinky finger. Worst example ever. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-537085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackShadowWolf Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Honestly this is just retarded, once again companies have to sink to a new low. i wonder if they are donating part of the sales to the RIAA and MPAA. I bet if you can dump your media files into a rar or zip file then transfer them with no problem. Can save space with compression to . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-537674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrates Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Oh please, if you were a musician I'd hope you would invest in the $15 a month that a decent web hosting plan costs in order to distribute your music, and not some consumer-grade external hard drive. That's the worst possible example you could give.Fine it was a bad example. Here's another one. I rip my entire audio cd collection. I want to be able to access it from the road easily. With this I wouldn't be able to since they filter out mp3's. Either way I'm not buying this product.I bet if you can dump your media files into a rar or zip file then transfer them with no problem. Can save space with compression to .I hope you weren't serious about saving with compression. They are already compressed as much as they can be unless you switch the audio codec to use to compress that audio. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-537676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VincentVX73 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I've been an avid reader of this forum for about a year now, and this article finally made me register just so I could echo how ridiculous this whole DRM thing is getting. Don't these companies realize how bad this kind of control is for their business? I make my living building, repairing and selling computers, and you can add me to the list of people who will be boycotting western digital from this point forward. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you just batch-rename the 'banned' file types with some arbitrary extension, making the 'protection' that much more absurd? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-538434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 So what happens if your in the recording industry. Sorry, the concert you just recorded was automatically deleted courtesy of WD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-538576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Fine it was a bad example. Here's another one. I rip my entire audio cd collection. I want to be able to access it from the road easily. With this I wouldn't be able to since they filter out mp3's. Yes you would. You wouldn't be able to do it with THEIR FREE SOFTWARE THAT SHIPS WITH THE DRIVE. What aren't you people getting? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-538595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 yes, i agree.. if you have one of these style external hd ,you can't even open it up without busting it..... there is no screws ! Wrong. I just swapped the drive out in my WD MyBook the other day. There is one screw that locks the case (under a sticker), then the case just snaps off around the edges. It's easy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-539039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrates Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yes you would. You wouldn't be able to do it with THEIR FREE SOFTWARE THAT SHIPS WITH THE DRIVE.What aren't you people getting? And why should they be allowed to say what you can and can't share with yourself because they can't verify if you own it or not, so just ban it instead. But why are you defending it is another question? Should they be allowed to ban certain file types because it may allegedly be pirated? That is like saying one is guilty until proven innocent. It's the other way around in case you forgot the way the justice system works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75920-throttlinghardware/page/2/#findComment-539698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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