 joetaxpayerI'M Here Till Thursday
join:2001-09-07
Sudbury, MA | reply to DaSneaky1D
Re: Violation of DMCA said by DaSneaky1D:This is not "theft of service." Indeed, I'd make the comparison to the printer companies. Sucking you in with a cheap printer, but then selling you 5 cent worth of ink in a cartridge keyed to your printer. Hacking ink cartridges is the next big thing.
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BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 | Guys, guys, please. I'm pretty sure he or she was being entirely sarcastic. Sigh.
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to joetaxpayer
Actually, its probably a more valid point with laser printers...
There are companies that 'recycle' used laser printer cartidges. Now HP (possibly others as well) as creating a special 'chip' that can tell if the cartridge is either an HP, used or non-HP cartridge, and will not work unless its an original 'new' HP cartridge.
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BPremium,MVM
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Huh? Why is it a more valid comparison to talk about laser cartridges, which as far as I know are not yet chipped, rather than talk about ink jet cartridges, which overwhelmingly ARE already chipped?
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