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December 11, 2007
Is your hard drive loyal?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics.
In his article Who is your hard drive working for? Sandberg writes about the case of Western Digital, a producer of networked hard drives that enable users to access their files across the net. Western Digital has blocked customers from sharing media files from their drives.
The move is possibly a pre-emptive way for the company to avoid being sued by the content industry for providing a means for piracy. The block covers most popular media formats, regardless of who owns the copyright of the contents. Who really owns the hard drive– the customer or Western Digital?
Read more by Anders Sandberg on this issue in his Eudoxa Policy Study Autonomy, Loyalty and Trust in the World of Machines.
Posted by Waldemar at December 11, 2007 10:45 AM