misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoBrother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square252fedilinkarrow-up11.19Karrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up11.19Karrow-down1external-linkBrother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]www.tomshardware.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square252fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmy.zip
Brother deny the claims: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/ via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250
minus-squareCMonsterlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI briefly worked on canon commercial printers and they had something very similar to this built in so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
I briefly worked on canon commercial printers and they had something very similar to this built in so it wouldn’t surprise me at all.