According to The Register, it is chip copying that Lexmark challenged:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/28811.html "Lexmark has invoked the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a legal action against a firm that makes chips that permit third party toner cartridges to work in its printers. "
Hope its not illegal to copy text from a web site! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Comments on the DMCA and te TPCA > Hi List, > a design can be copyrighted on its form, colors, etcetera. > Furthermore: it is not in the interest of Lexmark that the cartridges > will be refilled. You have to know how to refill and hack the > anti-refill measures Lexmark did build in. Telling about this hacking is > illegal... however simple refilling is. > I refill my Xerox printer cartridges too. IMHO this is not illegal > but telling you 'how to do it' might be illegal. > Maybe I tell you some day where to make a little hole in the cartridge > and what kind of ordinary ink is put into that hole by a seringe. > I will not tell you... for I do not like to be arrested if I visit > the United States. > > CU, Bastiaan > > > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:08:23 -0000, John Sparks wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Arachne List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 4:55 AM > > Subject: Re: Comments on the DMCA and te TPCA > >> On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:25:52 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard > > Menedetter) wrote: > > <snip> > >> > Lexmark sued an ink cartrdige refiller for violating the DMCA. > >> > The ink cartrdige is "copyrighted", and the making of lexmark cartridges > > is > >> > illegal accoring to 1201 of the DMCA. > >> > 1201 is the evasion of copyright protection schemes. > > <snip> > >> Unless the container and its components have some > >> unique features and characteristics and component materials which make it > >> quite unlike anything else, then how can it be copyrighted or patented? > > <snip> > > Agreed, but some Lexmark's incorporate the heads in the cartridge and might > > be patented. Even so it would seem strange that what is essentially a refill > > service would be illegal. > > > John > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 25/12/02 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 10/01/03
