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posted by janrinok on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the cup-too-far dept.

We covered the Keurig's DRM'ed Coffee Pod three days ago, but today Blackmoore provides us with a link to a Cory Doctorow article: Why DRM'ed coffee-pods may be just the awful stupidity we need.

In it, Doctorow argues that this case might conceivably lead someone to initiate legal action which could eventually, given a technically-savvy judge, result in common sense being applied and legal precedent being created. Blackmoore also provides this quote from the article: 'But of all the DRM Death Stars to be unveiled, Keurig's is a pretty good candidate for Battle Station Most Likely to Have a Convenient Thermal Exhaust Port.'"

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:57PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:57PM (#12205)

    The legal precedent [arstechnica.com] is already on the books. And it doesn't work favorably for Keurig.

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