On: DRM Coffee

[twelvechairs]

How is this different from my printer - where an inbuilt chip in the cartridges makes buying third-party versions difficult (but not impossible)?

[jcoder → twelvechairs]

It makes coffee? Seriously, same idea, but it's still newsworthy because it's a bad, bad, dangerous idea.

[Strang → twelvechairs]

It's not, and that's the problem. Printer ink prices and practices are universally reviled.

[Consultant32452 → twelvechairs]

My access to coffee is a human rights issue. The ability to use a printer is not.

[frandroid → Consultant32452]

Freedom of the press, man.

[shittyanalogy → twelvechairs]

Coffee instead of ink, your printer cartridges include the print head.