{"id":611,"date":"2014-03-04T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-03-04T22:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T03:19:59","slug":"keurigs-drm-coffee-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/04\/keurigs-drm-coffee-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Keurig&#8217;s DRM Coffee Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href ='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;index=aps&#038;keywords=Keurig&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=futuresteve03-20'><img src='http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B00AQ9NI36&#038;Format=_SL110_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=futuresteve03-20' border='0' \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=futuresteve03-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;index=aps&#038;keywords=Keurig&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=futuresteve03-20\">Keurig Coffee Machines<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=futuresteve03-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, those coffee makers that take a little cup, drop it in, and out comes a nice cup of coffee in whatever flavor you like.   People buy those coffee makers, and find inexpensive sources for those little cups you drop in, since the Keurig brand isn&#8217;t at the price they want to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20140227\/06521826371\/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml\">TechDirt<\/a> is reporting  that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the company behind the coffee makers is working on the next generation coffee maker that won&#8217;t accept those third party coffee drop-ins any more, if those drop-ins aren&#8217;t licensed.<\/p>\n<p>You know, pretty much how a lot of printers work with ink cartridges these days.  Except with the printers, if you put in a third party ink cartridge, it&#8217;ll probably work, you just won&#8217;t have the printer tell you things like how much ink is left.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine this won&#8217;t go over very well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/03\/keurigs-next-generation-of-coffee-machines-will-have-drm-lockdown\/\">Via Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Keurig Coffee Machines, those coffee makers that take a little cup, drop it in, and out comes a nice cup of coffee in whatever flavor you like. People buy those coffee makers, and find inexpensive sources for those little cups you drop in, since the Keurig brand isn&#8217;t at the price they want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[250,303,302],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadget","tag-coffee","tag-drm","tag-keurig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}