Gadget Metro

Western Digital may have a new drive but it does not like sharing things too much, at least unintentionally and not directly. The company has built a new range of drives with software that limits the user’s ability to share files.

The company ships a range of My Book drives with software called Anywhere Access. This is designed to allow users to access their files from a network. The company has applied a big chunk of digital rights restriction technology to prevent users of the drives sharing unauthorized files, including music and video clips.

Unfortunately, the implementation of the technology to protect copyright also sees sharing of popular file formats completely restricted. Unfortunately, that includes files that are created by users themselves. The restricted solution also forbids access to 30 different file formats, mainly video and music formats.

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