More fun with DMCA: hands off my, uh, toner?
A chip in a toner cartridge keeps you from using a competitor’s cartridge - unless they emulate the chip. Which is what happened, and Lexmark’s suing. But I love the idea: I pay you to put a chip in the toner that keeps me fron having options as to how I refill the toner in my printer. The answer is simply to never buy LexMark, who don’t exactly make top-notch printers anyway, which is likely why they need to scavenge for revenue at the bottom of the barrel, cretinously, like vampire leech-eels.