Yes, it’s time to stop buying anything to do with Western Digital. They think we’re scum.
One of the world’s largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing online their media files that are stored on networked drives.
Western Digital says the decision to block sharing of music and audio files is an anti-piracy effort.
The ban operates regardless of whether the files are copy-protected, or a user’s own home-produced content.
Nice of them to be considering our feelings on this.
Alexander Ross, a lawyer claims:
“The reason for a lack of standards across the industry is that there’s no such thing as the industry,” said Mr Ross.
“There is Steve Jobs and Microsoft and the two titans are at odds with one another. Between them they rule the market.
That’s utter bollocks, Mister Ross. There’s all sorts of standards for video, there just aren’t standards for DRM. From one point of view that’s a bad thing because we then have to have deals made across the industry but from another point of view it’s a good thing because it prevents one company from controlling the market – something no-one wants especially when one of them is a convicted monopolist.
Boycott Western Digital. You know it’s the right thing to do.