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Keurig: Your New Coffee Overlord » Cyborgology - 0 views

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keurig intellectual property drm

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  • Don’t mistake this as anything other than a test run for the future.
  • As a trial run, I’m not optimistic that it will work out well for them. But I think that this stands as yet more evidence that DRM-creep is something to watch for
  • purplekimchi on 07 Mar 14
     
    New Keurig coffee makers will have DRM and will not work with any other coffee pods. I use a pod that minimizes the plastic and the little plastic it does use is corn based and biodegradable. I inherited my keurig from my partner's office (they were going to throw it away for a very silly reason!) and it looks like i won't ever purchase one for myself.
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On the Wrong Side of Globalization - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 21 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • There is a real risk that it will benefit the wealthiest sliver of the American and global elite at the expense of everyone else
  • testament to how deeply inequality reverberates through our economic policies
  • But there would be some big losers — namely, the rest of us.
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  • One of the worst is that it allows corporations to seek restitution in an international tribunal, not only for unjust expropriation, but also for alleged diminution of their potential profits as a result of regulation. This is not a theoretical problem. Philip Morris has already tried this tactic against Uruguay, claiming that its antismoking regulations, which have won accolades from the World Health Organization, unfairly hurt profits, violating a bilateral trade treaty between Switzerland and Uruguay.
  • There is already some evidence that companies are choosing how to funnel their money into different countries on the basis of where their legal position in relation to the government is strongest
  • But the TPP would make the introduction of generic drugs more difficult, and thus raise the price of medicines.
  • Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations — as the TPP would — will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.
  • purplekimchi on 21 Mar 14
     
    Seriously, the TPP is as bad as the deals we read about in Drahos and Braithwaite.
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 25 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • purplekimchi on 25 Mar 14
     
    Anticipating our Zittrain reading later in the semester..
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