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A STORY ON news.com reveals just how much printer companies rely on the sales of printer cartridges to keep their profits bubbling.
Lexmark, apparently, will take a firm called Static Control Components to court and has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the case.
It will claim today that the company has broken this law by selling chips to firms that make refills for Lexmark printers.
It's significant that Lexmark has invoked the DMCA rather than using the usual infringement of patent laws which would normally apply in such a case.
But perhaps the judge, the defendant and Lexmark would like to consider this article*, which says the European Union will ban printer firms from introducing proprietary chip technology into their machines.
From 2006, this practice will become illegal, the EU proposes, meaning that printer firms will have to find another way to rip off sell their machines. µ
* WONDER WHY THIS story is also dated the 9th of January? We wrote it on the 19th of December but forgot to press the button which would post it on the site.
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