North Carolina Fights Back Against Lexmark

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)."

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Re:I like this

[nomadic]

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...