Tag: DRM
As if digital rights management technology wasn’t nefarious enough when applied to media, now it’s coming for your coffee. As TechDirt points out, Keurig’s next-generation hardware will be programmed to function only when used in tandem with its own proprietary software coffee, meaning competing brands and environmentally friendly fill-it-yourself pods for their ubiquitous single-serving coffee […]
What if physical objects were subjected to the same arbitrary usage limits that certain distributors have forced upon perfectly legal, paid-for digital media? That’s the question posed by the DRM Chair (that’s digital rights management to you), a piece of furniture that falls apart in majestic fashion after its internal counter has detected eight uses. […]
