Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Have to agree with the others that this device is a loser. I really like k-cup coffee but I don't want to be fighting my machine for the right to make coffee if my k-cup doesn't have a new ink marker on the foil top. Yes, you can "hack" it, but you shouldn't have to hack your own coffee machine and that creates other problems (like when wanting to brew a carafe but it's been hacked for regular k-cups). This is just nonsense and unless enough consumers stand up to it then they will get away with it. I highly recommend buying another machine that doesn't verify that you have the right to make a cup of coffee before making it. I read an article about how "Keurig has been busy striking exclusionary agreements with suppliers and distributors to lock competing products out of the market". Not good. Obviously they are hard at work trying to figure out how to lock out competition and extract more money from consumers since September 2012 when some of their key patents expired. Making coffee should not depend on having the rights to do so. By the way, this new system also prevents you from using your own coffee grinds unless you hack it. UPDATE 2016-04-17: Looks like there are reusable coffee pods now that work with the 2.0 system and let you choose your own coffee. Also, just because the maker of your k-cup paid some money to Keurig to use their special ink & top doesn't mean it's better quality coffee, as Keurig would like you to believe. 1 star until they address this totally unacceptable anti-consumer policy. UPDATE 2015-02-17: Be mindful of the reviews where the reviewer has received a free Keurig machine or free coffee for making the review. I noticed there are a lot of them.