Brother printers joins the Evil Empire, blocks third-party ink with stealth updates

Printer manufacturer Brother, once the last bastion of hope for people who don't have spare Krugerrands lying around to buy printer ink, has quietly joined the dark side of proprietary ink enforcement. Through forced firmware updates, the company is now blocking third-party cartridges and removing older firmware versions that allowed them to work. — Read the rest
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