DRM build into hard drives?
I was perusing the BBC News Technology page on the way in to university this morning on the iPhone and I had to read this article twice in an attempt to make some sense from it.
Apparently Western Digital are putting DRM right into hard drives. So how on earth are they going to manage that one? Maybe I’m being a bit simplistic here, but to a hard drive isn’t all data just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s? And it’s up to the operating system to decide what to do with the data?
So how will this work? And even if it can’t be circumvented (and let’s be honest, I give it a week at most before someone’s found a way around it), which serious file sharer will buy one of these drives?
I was planning on going on the whole “DRM is dumb” rant here, but I’d be wasting my time. We all agree on that one.
It just annoys the hell out of me.
