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The fact that Brother cartridges even contain a DRM chip at all proves that the company is lost to the dark side.

Gigachad 2y ago
Is it a DRM chip? Or is it just a basic flash chip that tells the printer roughly how much toner is left and to alert the user that they put the toner in the wrong color slot.
- autoexec 2y ago
  It's a DRM chip if your working printer stops working after a firmware update because your third party toner cartridge doesn't have the chip, but the printer works again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to stick the chip onto the third party toner cartridge. That's what's been reported. It's no different than the lids you could stick on third party K-cups to magically get the DRM infested Keurig machines to work.
  - Marsymars 2y ago
    > It's a DRM chip if your working printer stops working after a firmware update because your third party toner cartridge doesn't have the chip, but the printer works again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to stick the chip onto the third party toner cartridge. Well consider if you had a USB charging cable with a junk-tier emarker chip that stops working when your phone updates its firmware because it adds some additional checks to prevent charging problems. (But the phone starts charging again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to replace your cheap cable's emarker chip with a properly engineered one.) I don't think anyone would reasonably consider the emarker chip in a USB cable to be a DRM chip.
    - Gigachad 2y ago
      A real world scenario of this happened. 3rd party iPhone screens were using the controller chip from the previous iPhone, but it still worked fine. Until a new iOS update released, since that iOS version wasn’t going out to the previous iPhone, the driver for that controller got removed since in theory there would be no devices using it anymore. Causing all the replacement screens to stop working until Apple added the driver back.

Is it a DRM chip? Or is it just a basic flash chip that tells the printer roughly how much toner is left and to alert the user that they put the toner in the wrong color slot.

autoexec 2y ago
It's a DRM chip if your working printer stops working after a firmware update because your third party toner cartridge doesn't have the chip, but the printer works again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to stick the chip onto the third party toner cartridge. That's what's been reported. It's no different than the lids you could stick on third party K-cups to magically get the DRM infested Keurig machines to work.
- Marsymars 2y ago
  > It's a DRM chip if your working printer stops working after a firmware update because your third party toner cartridge doesn't have the chip, but the printer works again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to stick the chip onto the third party toner cartridge. Well consider if you had a USB charging cable with a junk-tier emarker chip that stops working when your phone updates its firmware because it adds some additional checks to prevent charging problems. (But the phone starts charging again as soon as you follow a youtube video on how to replace your cheap cable's emarker chip with a properly engineered one.) I don't think anyone would reasonably consider the emarker chip in a USB cable to be a DRM chip.
  - Gigachad 2y ago
    A real world scenario of this happened. 3rd party iPhone screens were using the controller chip from the previous iPhone, but it still worked fine. Until a new iOS update released, since that iOS version wasn’t going out to the previous iPhone, the driver for that controller got removed since in theory there would be no devices using it anymore. Causing all the replacement screens to stop working until Apple added the driver back.