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Re:Epson printer no longer recognizes third-party ink after ... by user3939382 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:39AM (#32934851)
Do the state attorneys general or FTC not have the authority to stop this? Surely they don’t have the right to disable their hardware with new financial requirements that didn’t exist at the time of purchase.
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Re:Epson printer no longer recognizes third-party ink after ... by ouid on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:09AM (#32934997)
no, you see, update are important for security, so it is always legal for any company to install, via a backdoor, anything else they want to for any reason, provided it is also possible for them to also fix bugs that they have introduced through the same mechanism.
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