figured out that all they have to do is cut the top off of one and then just put it on top of the other one and it just worked. So yeah, why would you put DRM on an ink cartridge except to lock people into that? Well, that's why. It's a good revenue stream for them. Now that's just crazy. Yeah, many printer manufacturers way back before we had as many printers as we have today were of the opinion that you give the printer away and you hope that people buy the ink from you because that's where you make the profit. And you could buy, there was a period of time when you could buy a brand new printer, usually some of the inexpensive ones like Lexmark and so on. You could buy a printer for less money on sale than it was going to cost you to buy the replacement ink cartridges for it. So would you just buy a new printer every time it ran out of ink? And yeah, and I did that a couple of times until they got wise to the fact that people were doing this. And then they started providing half (28/43)
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