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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by clusterfish on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:54PM (#28890897)
Accidental failures are one thing, deliberately user hostile design is another.
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by unstatedAnswers on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:22PM (#28891134)
Parent is insinuating this may be deliberate sabotage on Brother’s end, to convince users to buy a new model after a while
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by clusterfish on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:51PM (#28891384)
It may also be just random failure of some components that were simply costed to be less than bulletproof on their "low to midrange" model. Or a software issue as suggested by another poster. No evidence of any sabotage was presented.
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