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North Carolina Fights Back Against Lexmark

Posted by simoniker on from the state-poking-at-dmca? dept.

ngrier writes "Seems that at least some aren't sitting idly by, while printer manufacturers try to assert total control. The North Carolina legislature just approved a measure which guarantees the consumer's right to refill ink cartridges. For history of the Lexmark DMCA-related story, involving the company placing copyright-protected code in their printer cartridges in order to prevent competitors from producing compatible cartridges, there are previous Slashdot posts about it here(1), here(2), and here(3)."

3 of 412 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Finally... by ugly_a · · Score: 3, Funny

    With ink cartridges surpassing the cost of Dom perignon, the rocket fuel just might be cheaper.

  2. Re:I like this by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or you could just not buy a lexmark printer. Let the market descide, don't legislate to death.

    Yeah, worked so well in curtailing Microsoft's behavior...

  3. Where are the environmentalists... by phorm · · Score: 3, Funny

    when you need them. Because people have exactly this type of attitude. Buy printer... printer sucks down in... find out new ink (colour+b&w) costs nearly as much as the printer, or even more.

    Printer ends up in landfill... I'm sure there are a lot of non-environmentally friendly components.

    So why aren't/weren't the environmentalists all over Lexmark's ass for this... they know it's what happens?!