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the CEO absolutely needs to face prison for this - they basically destroyed other peoples’ property.
by option 3y ago
the CEO absolutely needs to face prison for this - they basically destroyed other peoples’ property.
- charcircuit 3y ago>destroyed other peoples’ property. What property was destroyed? The HP printer still works with genuine ink cartridges and the third party ink cartridge will work for printers that don't require genuine HP ink.
- contravariant 3y agoKind of a weird world we live in where intellectual property gives someone else legal power over what we may do with our own devices, but conversely our ability to do things with our devices that is within our legal right is not considered our property.
- charcircuit 3y agoThat's not what's happening here. HP doesn't have power over what you can do to your printer. If you want to modify your printer so that it allows for ungenuine ink to be used you are free to do so.
- Zak 3y agoHP modified other peoples' printers without genuine[0] consent to make the printers less valuable. It should probably be illegal for them to do that. I imagine there isn't an existing criminal law covering that and I'm not in favor of interpreting criminal laws creatively to expand their scope, however I could be convinced to support making a new criminal law to cover this kind of behavior. [0] No doubt, they have some fine print in a clickwrap agreement giving themselves permission.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoIf I start a business as a sole trader and do shit for this, I get prison time. If a big-time CEO does this, he gets a fay bonus