Brother is playing the game, too. My 3-month-old Brother MFC (printer, copier/scanner) just refused to recognize the generic ink cartridge I bought off of eBay.

Brother is playing the game, too. My 3-month-old Brother MFC (printer, copier/scanner) just refused to recognize the generic ink cartridge I bought off of eBay. I had to pry the RFID(?) chip off the empty Brother cartridge and hot-glue it to the generic cartridge. Now it works.