On: HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink ca...

[ranting-moth]

Not quite. They're disabling printers today that were functional yesterday.

There's no HP cartridge to put back in, unless I go and buy one.

The printer is disabled until I give HP money. I call that extortion.

[hypercube33 → ranting-moth]

in a free market shouldn't hp be forced to lower it's prices to compete with 3rd party to a little more than their price since it technically is OEM? I mean like car parts

[influxmoment → hypercube33]

Free markets don't work if fraud and bad actors are not prosecuted. Otherwise lies and fraud will win against honest actors

[ryao → hypercube33]

They made tank based printers to compete instead of competing on price on these models.

[emodendroket → hypercube33]

"Free markets" are created by governments and ours hasn't evinced an interest in this particular problem.