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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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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by SleazyRidr on Thursday March 06 2014, @05:22PM
The people at Keurig, rightly or wrongly, have decided that the risk of consumer backlash against a DRM system will be less than the potential increase in profits from such a system. The crackers working to break DRM are reducing the potential profits companies will see. Keurig would potentially take DRM out of the realms of computers into everyday objects and are a lot higher profile than Lexmark. If it goes badly for them it could swing future calculations about consumer backlash. I'm possibly being wildly optimistic here, but it's something to hope for.