DCMA: You must use Ford Gas in Ford Cars or Else We Repo The Car

[Steve Schear]

At 04:38 AM 6/28/2001 -0400, George at Orwellian.Org wrote:
>From: Steve Schear <schear at lvcm.com>
>#
>#    No need, you can buy these kits for about $100 (by the time you've
>#    used up the initial ink supply included with the kit you've save
>#    about $300 by their reckoning) from MIS http://www.inksupply.com.
>
>Heh.
>
>http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/arcnew.html
>#
>#    We have brand new cartridges that are pre filled with the archival
>#    ink. These are available for the all Epson printers except the
>#    777, 870, 875, 1270, and 2000P.
>#
>#    Epson has put a chip on the cartridges for
>#    these printers that prevents refilling.
>
>Elsewhere they have a link for defeating the chip.

An interesting tech war that gets little or no press.

steve