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Seagate drops warranty from 5 to 3 years on bare drives

Just got an email from Seagate’s reseller partner alias. (They like to send out a number of emails once you’ve returned a drive or two.) Effective January 3/09, warranties for ‘bare’ drives – mostly available from resellers such as NCIX and Canada Computers – will shrink from 5 years to three. Existing purchases and purchases before [...]

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2008 12 10 Jake Billo news
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Western Digital disables .avi, .mp3 sharing on external drives

From Boing Boing:
Western Digital is disabling sharing of any avi, divx, mp3, mpeg, and many other files on its network connected devices; due to unverifiable media license authentication.
The support page on the issue effectively notes that the ‘license authentication’ nonsense blocks any type of media from being accessed by anonymous share users.
I don’t own any [...]

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2007 12 06 Jake Billo tech Comments (1)