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Re: New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Jul 5 09:35:52 2002
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 17:02:04 +1200 (NZST)
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, dbs@philodox.com,
rah@shipwright.com
"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> quotes:
>M-6Some inkjet printers have chips in their ink cartridges that prevent
>operation if the cartridge has been refilled.
Actually I'm amazed no printer vendor has ever gone after companies who produce
third-party Smartchips for remanufactured printer cartridges. This sounds like
the perfect thing to hit with the DMCA universal hammer. I wonder if there's a
good reason for this? Why is this particular field immune?
Peter.
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