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Why would this be a joke?
It just seems so trivial, both in terms of the item being targeted and the workaround, in comparison to the presentation of the website with its custom domain and all, that it most likely has some satirical element to it.
DRM-free dirt cheap coffee: 1. Bring water to boil in a pot 2. Add 2 tbsp ground coffee per cup of water 3. Kill the heat, cover for 5 mins 4. Pour into cup through fine colander or cheese cloth Seriously it's delicious and you already have the tools you need in your kitchen.
Is this a joke? Seems like a lot of people are falling for it...
What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
Speaking as someone who on a variety of occasions has been asked to bake these kinds of restriction into a piece of code, I've tended to follow the restriction to the letter but not the spirit -- yes, this product has "DRM", but yes, any child with a hex editor can disable it in a few minutes. From this I guess that weak DRM is very often entirely intentional. As for the kind of engineer that does it, you do. Or more…
1. The consumer purphases product A (here the coffee maker) on the normal consumer market we're all familiar with.
2. Doing so forces the consumer to purchase product B (here K-cups) on a different market.
Keurig's goal is to control the second market. By making having all the market power, they can jack up prices to the consumer's detriment.
The reason you see companies like this invoking the DMCA or using DRM is because they have no actual competitive advantage in that second market. They are at a disadvantage because they burned money selling product A at a loss to get people into their market.
DRM-free dirt cheap coffee: 1. Bring water to boil in a pot 2. Add 2 tbsp ground coffee per cup of water 3. Kill the heat, cover for 5 mins 4. Pour into cup through fine colander or cheese cloth Seriously it's delicious and you already have the tools you need in your kitchen.
DRM-free dirt cheap coffee: 1. Bring water to boil in a pot 2. Add 2 tbsp ground coffee per cup of water 3. Kill the heat, cover for 5 mins 4. Pour into cup through fine colander or cheese cloth Seriously it's delicious and you already have the tools you need in your kitchen.
A pourover cone seems a more practical version of this method, or a french press. Though in a pinch it will work!
There's absolutely no correlation between how expensive your coffee making process is and how good it tastes.
DRM-free dirt cheap coffee: 1. Bring water to boil in a pot 2. Add 2 tbsp ground coffee per cup of water 3. Kill the heat, cover for 5 mins 4. Pour into cup through fine colander or cheese cloth Seriously it's delicious and you already have the tools you need in your kitchen.