[TriLUG] DRMed coffee maker?

[C TC via TriLUG]

This has been, and will always be, a never ending debate.
Remember unlocking cassette tapes with a piece of scotch tape?

What are we to do? Purchase this coffee maker, and a roll of
black tape ... using cash only ... in order to stay off the grid?

Then again; I stand with the "void all warranties" crowd.
Have to agree with Jeremy on this one. Messing with people's
coffee is bad juju!



On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Igor Partola via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> John, that's my point, this is a clear case where patents, not copyright
> should be used. They found a way to use DMCA to protect their IP here, yet
> it's a really stupid way to do it, making it more difficult for them,
> inconvenient to the consumer, and very confusing for who is doing what
> wrong.
>
> With patents, they could protect their IP and control who can manufacture
> the K-cups.
>
> With copyright, they have to add DRM, and then it's not clear if adding a
> piece of black tape is a violation, or telling someone how to add it, or
> selling the black tape, or giving it away for free, or manufacturing your
> own K-Cups even though you don't do anything to circumvent the DRM. Or even
> better, do the manufacturers of the reusable K-Cups violate any law if they
> don't teach you how to circumvent the DRM?
>
> Basically, Keurig is digging their own grave with this. Instead of making
> better coffee machines that brew better coffee, they are trying to lock
> people into buying refills only from them. They already are seeing
> competition from Starbucks and the like who have their own single-serve
> coffee machines now.
>
> Igor
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