[TriLUG] DRMed coffee maker?

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Igor Partola via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Is using the ring a violation of copyright law, or is manufacturing and
> distributing it?

Unfortunately it is both. Just posting a description of how to use
black tape to defeat the vendor lock-in might be illegal. We the
People need a consumer advocate that will fight issues like this on
our behalf.

http://copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html
1201(a) "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that
effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

1201(b) "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public,
provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service,
device, component, or part thereof"