Too true, thanks for posting. It isn't just Epson though. Once one starts, they all have to copy to remain "Competitive", it seems to me. I also had a fax at one time, which I thought was a bargain until I realised the fax supplier gave our details to junk fax companies, who would then bombard us with daily unsolicited, nearly all black fax images, to rapidly drain the ink of the cartridge, which of course cost the same as the fax in the first place to replace, and was chipped to as not to be copyable by competitors.

Besides that, I went through several expensive printers until I twigged those too were rigged. I've had printers from HP, Samsung, Philips, of both inkjet and laserjet varieties, sometimes with built-in scanners, which of course fail conveniently when the printer function itself breaks, so the unit is fit for nothing but the rubbish tip, usually in less than two years, after costing an arm and a leg. Now I just refuse to buy another. Who needs planet destroying paper and printers nowadays anyway, with all the free electronic forms of communication we have, there isn't really an excuse to keep using paper.

Also I don't think it is possible to legislate against, there is too much profit driven corruption even in the legal business, the line between crime and business is becoming ever thinner.

Now we are maybe starting to realise that crime is really just poor people trying to do "business".