Presented without comment (except for yours).

Edit: Okay, I lied, I’m commenting on the notion that “when people start moving to encryption… they know they’re engaging in illegal conduct.” Apparently you’ve never kept all your financial data on a laptop hard drive before. Maybe you should start suing Apple for including 128-bit system-level encryption on every single Mac. Those Cupertinian bastards are encouraging piracy, I say!

OK, I’m done.
[tags]Matthew Ebel, piano rock, RIAA, technology, piracy, assholes[/tags]

News from the BBC:

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.

(Emphasis added)

So if I use your drive the way you intend, I won’t even be able to share the music I’m making in my own studio? What crackhead in your upper management ever thought this would be a good idea? I mean seriously, the only thing this is going to do is make sure anyone who wants music on their network drive doesn’t buy from Western Digital.

Which is, to say, everybody who owns a computer.

You are not doing me a favor, Western Digital, you’re treating my customers like thieves before they even have a chance to buy my music.

[tags]Matthew Ebel, piano rock, Western Digital, corporate stupidity, DRM, piracy, gestapo[/tags]