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this is a good example of a company which thinks it is doing what's best for it's customers by not allowing you to share your movies, music over the network.
Perhaps they are trying to go out of business. who knows.
yeah I have 1 TB of documents. NOT.

and here is the quote from their website.
Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the following file types cannot be shared by different users using WD Anywhere Access.

If these file types are on a share on the WD My Book World Edition system and another user accesses the share, these file will not be displayed for sharing. Any other file types can be shared using WD Anywhere Access.

File Extension File Description
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AIF Audio Interchange File
AIFC Audio Interchange File
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AMF DSMIA/Asylum Module File
ASF Advanced Streaming Format
ASX Advanced Stream Redirector
AVI Audio Video Interleave
CDA CD Audio
DVI DivX AVI
DIVX DivX AVI
FAR Farandoyle Tracker Music Module
IT Impulse Tracker
ITZ Impulse Tracker
KAR Karaoke MIDI
MDZ Cubic Player/Cross-View Music Module Description
MOV QuickTime Video
MP1 MPEG Layer 1 (Audio)
MP2 MPEG Layer 2 (Audio)
MP3 MPEG Layer 3 (Audio)
MP4 MPEG Layer 4 (Video)
MPA MPEG Audio Stream, Layer I, II or III
MPE MPEG Video
MPEG MPEG Video
MPG MPEG Video
MPGA MPEG Layer 3 (Audio Stream)
MPV2 MPEG Audio Stream, Layer II
OGG OGG Bitstream
OKT Oktalyzer Tracker Module
PTM PTM - Poly Tracker Module (Audio)
QT QuickTime Video
QT1 QuickTime Video
VOB Video Object (DVD Video)
VOC Creative Labs Sound
WM Windows Media Audio or Video
WMA Windows Media Audio
WMV Windows Media Video

The following types of files are not supported by WD Anywhere Access (cannot be moved to a share):

File Extension File Description
TMP Windows temporary files

This drive was incredibly easy to set up and is a breeze to use.

I'm using this on my home network which has several Macs and PCs.

I plugged it into my network and turned it on. It immediately was visitble on my network. I gave the drive a fixed IP and set up a user. I mounted the drive and ran my backup software. That was all there was to it.

I did not install the included software - it has something to do with sharing your files outside of your home network, something in which I am not interested.

I finally have a full backup of all my music, pictures, movies and data. In addition, I can pull off the movies and pictures to any device in my home - great for watching movies on other machines / media devices.

Some posters have commented that the drive does not let you share certain file types. That simply is not true. This drive sits on my network and acts like any attached storage device. Perhaps these users are trying to share their media files outside their home network with the included software - I suspect that is where they are running into problems. There are many better and more secure ways to share your files, and those do not limit what file types you can share. I would recommend not installing the included software.

All in all, I've been very pleased with this drive.

That this drive is self-policing is insane. What sort of marketing blunder is this? As a local drive this drive is very usable, but the moment you try to run it as a file server, forget it.

Western Digital MyBooks, in general, are very nice products. Just not this one, or their NAS product. You can do much better if you are looking for a NAS.

I purchased this at Best Buy to replace a two year old Linksys NAS which was 100Mbit. I intended for this device to support our new HTPC, allowing remote data storage of home videos and iTunes music. The older Linksys 100Mbit device was too slow for watching movies over the network. Unfortunately, this MyBookWorld did not provide faster network transfer rates. Amazingly, the gigabit connection made no difference. According to cnet, this device is one of the slowest NAS products on the market, with the HP Media Vault (MV2020) being the fastest. I didn't try the included software due to the file-type constraints.. which seems crazy to me. I would give this product zero stars if possible. I returned this product and will try the HP MV2020.

This product will not share almost all media types across a network, due to "unverifiable media license" issues.

This means that you won't be able to store movies or music on it.

This is confirmed by their own tech support page:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1495&p_created=1168641440&p_sid=bLTfVJLi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NSw1JnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX2ZubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PS5hdmk*&p_li=&p_topview=1