Multimedia sharing off limits on Western Digital NAS drive
Concerned about piracy of multimedia files, Western Digital has disallowed the sharing of multimedia files on its 1TB network-attached storage drive, the WD My Book World Edition. Due to “unverifiable media license authentication,” the remote desktop software embedded on the NAS device does not share audio and video files, including MP3, MPEG, AVI, and DivX files, according to WD’s customer support site.
Access to multimedia files is allowed only by the primary user registered on WD Anywhere Access, the remote desktop client embedded on the NAS device, said Brian Miller, director of marketing at Western Digital. Anywhere Access is based on the MioNet remote desktop client, which allows users to access, read, edit and share files on remote desktops. The Anywhere Access client allows remote users access to Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and other files, Miller said. Files on the My Book World Edition NAS device can be accessed either through MioNet client software or through Web browsers.
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