"Such lock-out technology cannot be justified based on any purported consumer benefit, and Green Mountain itself has admitted that the lock-out technology is not essential for the new brewers’ function. Like its exclusionary agreements, this lock-out technology is intended to serve anticompetitive and unlawful ends."
This is not different from any other DRM mechanism. Unfortunately, that also makes it legal.
This is not different from any other DRM mechanism. Unfortunately, that also makes it legal.