<story><title>Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings</title><url>https://twitter.com/naderman/status/1479529888977760258</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>The book industry did this too, years ago. They would sell normal books in the West but cheaper versions, with lighter weight paper etc, in Eastern countries. There&amp;#x27;s no lock of course, but before the internet it was harder to buy a cheap copy of Knuth from India if you lived in US.&lt;p&gt;The point is, ink extortion seems to thrive on pricing tiers for different markets, just like content extortion does.</text></item><item><author>trentnix</author><text>I bought extra HP cartridges off of Amazon years ago for my business so we would have extras. Imagine my surprise when, after installing the cartridges about a year later, I learned they were the wrong “region”. Turns out HP region locks ink like they are Blu-Rays or Nintendo games!&lt;p&gt;I had no idea I was buying “out-of-region” ink cartridges and I also had no idea such a thing could possibly matter. I called HP and the tech support person had the gall to tell me they have different ink for different regions because the climates are different. I nearly swallowed my teeth at the stupidity of such a claim.&lt;p&gt;They offered nothing until I started telling my story on Twitter, and suddenly a Support person messaged me on Twitter offering free replacements. So not only do they have an indefensible strategy of region-locking ink cartridges, they also train you to whine as loudly as possible to get any sort of recourse.&lt;p&gt;The entire printer industry appears to be running one scam or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luma</author><text>Wiley also attempted to make importing those foreign versions illegal, because of course they did.  It eventually took the US Supreme Court to intervene on behalf of common sense.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings</title><url>https://twitter.com/naderman/status/1479529888977760258</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imglorp</author><text>The book industry did this too, years ago. They would sell normal books in the West but cheaper versions, with lighter weight paper etc, in Eastern countries. There&amp;#x27;s no lock of course, but before the internet it was harder to buy a cheap copy of Knuth from India if you lived in US.&lt;p&gt;The point is, ink extortion seems to thrive on pricing tiers for different markets, just like content extortion does.</text></item><item><author>trentnix</author><text>I bought extra HP cartridges off of Amazon years ago for my business so we would have extras. Imagine my surprise when, after installing the cartridges about a year later, I learned they were the wrong “region”. Turns out HP region locks ink like they are Blu-Rays or Nintendo games!&lt;p&gt;I had no idea I was buying “out-of-region” ink cartridges and I also had no idea such a thing could possibly matter. I called HP and the tech support person had the gall to tell me they have different ink for different regions because the climates are different. I nearly swallowed my teeth at the stupidity of such a claim.&lt;p&gt;They offered nothing until I started telling my story on Twitter, and suddenly a Support person messaged me on Twitter offering free replacements. So not only do they have an indefensible strategy of region-locking ink cartridges, they also train you to whine as loudly as possible to get any sort of recourse.&lt;p&gt;The entire printer industry appears to be running one scam or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>In France many books come in a default format which is a massive waste of space - big size, the paper is very thick, the font is pretty big, and there&amp;#x27;s a lot of whitespace on each page. And some books get a &amp;quot;pocket edition&amp;quot; which doesn&amp;#x27;t do any of those. If it were just the font it could be explained by targeting&amp;#x2F;adapting to people with poor vision, but the rest makes no sense besides to waste paper.</text></comment>