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Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End

Posted by timothy on from the pfui-on-them dept.

Adama writes "Lexmark is dead in the water with their hopes to use the DMCA to force their customers to buy their over-priced toner. Their request for another hearing has been denied. Ars has an especially great write-up on this." (See this earlier story for more background on Lexmark's lock-in attempt.)

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  1. Common people: 1, Fritz Hollings: nill. by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They'll be back next year, this time with a patented cartridge that plays (copyrighted) music (or sound) as part of its printing process, try duplicating that legally?

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  2. The Razor Principle all over by xiando · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gillette has been doing what the whole printer industry is doing with Razors for YEARS: Give the tool away cheap or for free and charge high for the blades. Some printers are actually sold cheaper than the ink cartages who come with the printer. So the ink cartridges who come with printers now only contain one third of the volume, just to make you go buy a new one a week after purchase. This is just not fair. Boycott the whole printer industry AND save the environment at the same time: Print less. Encourage your friends to do the same. Trees are today being cut down ten times the rate they are being reproduced! This is a fact. Yes, if we keep this up then the planet will be free of trees by the end of the century. So teach the evil printer industry a lesion, print less. And No, switching brand will not help, they are all running the ink scam.

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  3. Gameboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So does this mean that Nintendo can't claim copyright on the bitmap logo that is needed for the Gameboy to accept a cartridge? Does this open the door for third parties to manufacture their own GB cartridges?

  4. unfortunately.... by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Interesting
    One would think that something like this will kill Lexmark. ie. If you screw over the customer, then the customers will shun you and you go out of business.

    Unfortunately it seems that this thinking is flawed. Customers these days are so used to having their rights, privacy, whatever abused that they expect to be ripped off by the Lexmarks, Microsofts etc of the world.

    What happened to the old days when the customer was king and great customer service was the way to do business.

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    1. Re:unfortunately.... by joeljkp · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The solution from a consumer perspective, of course, is a PPP (price per page) index. I haven't seen any manufacturers advertising this, though. Are reviewers doing it?

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