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San Francisco Bay Coffee sells biodegradable K-cups (they call them OneCups). They're also cheaper than the official K-cups. The only catch is that they don't work on the new Keurig 2.0 DRMed brewers.

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Except it looks like OneCups are now including the "Freedom Clip" with each box: https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/Keurig-DRM-Freedom-Clip.html

Couldn't Keurig sue them for selling that?

They did, and lost.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/19/free...

I might have missed it, but that seems to clarify how they beat Keurig's lawsuit re: the cups themselves, but not the Freedom Clip.

Keurig does not appear to have any intellectual property claims to the ink used. At least not yet.

IANAL, but I would think the Sega v. Accolade case [0] would make this legal (unless the DMCA applies, but I don't think it would here, due to the more physical nature of the product).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accol....

HN breaks that link — the trailing period is part of the URL. The path is “/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accolade,_Inc.”

FYI, that's a 404 link to Wikipedia. You're missing a period at the end:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Enterprises_Ltd._v._Accolade,_Inc.

Perhaps it's just HN screwing up the autolinking

Seems like the most ridiculous DMCA issue yet.

It seems as though it's pretty easy to bypass the Keurig 2.0 DRM system:

http://www.keurighack.com/

(not tried it myself - i'm not a K-cup user)

Yeah, these are awesome. Our Costco sells them.

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