WhenKeurig Green Mountain introduced its 2.0 brewing system -- the successor to its first generation of wildly popular K-Cup brewers -- it tried to sneak in a feature that many consumers did not like.

Early last year, coffee maker company Keurig Green Mountain announced its intention to build a kind of Digital Rights Management (DRM) into its next-generation coffee maker, forcing Keurig 2.0 users ...

WhenKeurig introduced its 2.0 brewers earlier this fall, the company attempted to quietly add digital rights management technology to the machines making it so only licensed K-Cups would work in them.

When Keurig’s K-Cup patent expired back in 2012, instead of embracing the hundreds of companies producing instant beverages for the popular pod-based coffee brewing machine (who helped boost its ...

I drink more coffee than I'd like to admit. Most of it is black, since I like the idea of not overdosing on sugar throughout the day, although on regular occasion I do dump a bit of flavored creamer ...

Keurig's coffee machines have done great business for its owner Green Mountain Coffee. Making coffee in combination with pretty expensive capsules has made a lot of money for the company, but its ...

Keurig’s 2.0 brewer has been controversial, to say the least, with its DRM-like technology that locks out third-party coffee pods. After two quarters of seeing its hardware sales decline, the company ...

The company is loosening its control in some ways, but maybe not enough to get the public to buy its struggling 2.0 brewers. Alongside the ability brew full carafes as well as single cups, the coffee ...

The new brewers have digital rights management technology, but it's embarrassingly easy to get around. This move, which sparked a lawsuit from TreeHouse Foods, a maker of unlicensed K-Cups, charging ...