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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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(Score: 4, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:28PM
Outside of some wise judges, I think we're going to be waiting another 20 years before today's recent crop of lawyers join the judicial ranks. Those who grew up as "digital natives" will probably be judges a bit later, and only then will courts be able to understand these concepts at their deepest levels consistently.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:48PM
And by then, today's issues will be 20-30 years stale.
(Score: 2, Funny) by iWantToKeepAnon on Thursday March 06 2014, @09:52PM
And inside of same judges, we find the recent crap of lawyers.
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