LaserMonks Offer Prayer, Printer Cartridges

Minnesotan writes "According to a Twincities.com article: If you need discounted inkjet- or laser-printer cartridges, Wisconsin's LaserMonks say they'll give you a doozy of a deal while you 'support prayer for the world'. The Cistercian priests - yes, they're actual Catholic monks - oversee a novel e-commerce enterprise out of their rural abbey. Proceeds go to maintain the monastery and finance charitable works around the world."

Comments

New twist on an old idea.

[mikeophile]

Monks used inks to copy and illuminate manuscripts throughout the middle ages.

Now they are selling us the ink to copy and illuminate whatever manuscripts we want.

Since I'm pretty sure those ancient monks never had permission to copy any of the works they did, does that make them the original data pirates?

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Re:With These Guys

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Refilling your Lexmark cartridge isn't just a DMCA violation -- it's a sin!

Joke apart, those monks could do it : can you imagine Lexmark dragging them to court over this? Sure they'd be guilty, but Lexmark's sales would take a big dip, so they'd never do it. How's that for a DMCA circumvention scheme?

Re:time honored tradition

[Anonymous Coward]

This is an updated verson of a very old (middle ages) tradition of monastaries doing some specialized task (and doing it well) ....

And a particularly appropriate task. After all, one of their primary functions was copying books.