Next thing you know they'll create a browser which doesn't let you connect to the internet.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
No, WD is working with several PC manufacturers and MS to create a system that won't boot and doesn't even plugin. It is to be known as the greenest most energy efficient computer, and the easiest to operate.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Silly question, but can't they zip the media files to get around this? Not that they should, it's all rather silly.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
There are just so many reasons to hate corporations. Not 'companies' in general, but (especially but not always American) corporations...publicly-owned, out-for-a-profit-and-nothing-else conglomerates. Every time someone brings up DRM or piracy or anything remotely related, it just gives me a twitch in my eye - any argument for DRM or against piracy or siding with the RIAA/CRIA or for the DMCA pretty much falls down when you remember that the artists are getting bupkiss for their shit anyway. The record labels and movie studios and software companies own everything, not the singers or the directors or actors or writers or programmers. And the corporations don't care if they step on your rights or massively inconvenience you, as long as they save a buck or two.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
Sometimes I think all this DRM stuff is overkill. I had a discussion of this with a friend of mine and we agreed on the following:
- While neither of us resort to illegally downloading massive amounts of music and other media, we do agree that copyright infringement is indeed a serious problem. - The measures undertaken to protect such copyrights is overkill. Examples include this hard drive as well as many cellphones which you cannot use your own legitimate MP3s as ringtunes. - Artists need to tap into other sources of potential income and no longer rely on sales of their albums as their sole source of renumeration. Examples include having their songs as soundtracks on popular TV shows, video games, etc. I need not have to give an example in which a song on a TV show resulted in a large spike of exposure and popularity for that song in question, not to mention requests for shows and guest spots and the like.
That being said, I'm sick and tired of DMCA for their draconian measures, and I'm permanantely put off by WD for succumbing to such measures. Fortunately, I did buy a hard drive a while back and it was a Seagate, not a WD. I have three WD hard drives and those may be the only ones from them, perhaps forever.
Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :
Gotta love RIAA
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
Eastern Bloc Digital, more like...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Yar har. Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
Dammit, now I'm gonna have that stuck in my head all day.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Wait till Microsoft comes out with "Windows Pax Romana" which will immediately erase all files not certified by MS and then send these Automata (code named "Cromartie") back in time to remove all non-Microsoft software from ever being developed.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
And God will smite Bill Gates in a fit of rage when his PC BSODs, thus ushering in the next Age of Enlightenment.