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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)."

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  1. Re:I like this by (54)T-Dub · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

    On a side note someone gave me a lexmark printer. Stupid thing only works 1/2 the time for no appearent reason.

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  2. I hate to say this... by dbCooper0 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...but I am starting to miss the nasty sound of a dot-matrix printer in my home office.

    After all - my clients have given me these relics because they didn't want to deal with them. As little as I print, it would not matter.

    For images, I massage the JPG and put it where it needs to go. Print What?

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