{"id":288,"date":"2007-12-28T11:32:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T17:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/archives\/288"},"modified":"2007-12-28T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T17:32:49","slug":"western-digital-blocks-media-file-sharing-from-storage-device-storage-informationweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Blocks Media File Sharing From Storage Device &#8212; Storage &#8212; InformationWeek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204702710\">Western Digital Blocks Media File Sharing From Storage Device &#8212; Storage &#8212; InformationWeek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never going to buy a Western Digital\u00c2\u00a0 drive again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is just stupid, I mean I write music, and if I want my music available it should be.\u00c2\u00a0 Shoot if I want music I own to be available it should be.\u00c2\u00a0 So <strong>I<\/strong> can access it.<\/p>\n<p>As for video just imagine the thousands of hours of home videos you can&#8217;t show grandma.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s stupid, it&#8217;s dumb, and it&#8217;s going to hurt them more than help them.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the point of even having a 1TB network drive if you can&#8217;t use it for audio\/video.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s stupid, just plain stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is a pirate.\u00c2\u00a0 Not everyone has hours of movies, and if a person does rip their own stuff I think it&#8217;s fair use.<\/p>\n<p>It makes about as much sense as Apple putting out an ipod that won&#8217;t let you listen to .mp3 on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital Blocks Media File Sharing From Storage Device &#8212; Storage &#8212; InformationWeek I&#8217;m never going to buy a Western Digital\u00c2\u00a0 drive again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes-you-think","category-malware","category-things-that-get-me-mad","category-your-rights-dwindling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}