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RE: [Digital BW] Chipped carts, good for most of us

2003-01-13 by Austin Franklin

Ken,

> I would hate to see any movement
> here, as some have suggested,  towards a law restricting companies from
> employing their marketing strategy of choice, instead of letting the
> marketplace take care of it.

I would not call this situation "marketing strategy of choice".  What they
are doing is misleading customers to some degree, and attempting to use
bogus (IMO) legal tactics (like a very bizarre interpretation of the DMCA,
which, in my book, most of it should have never been put in place in the
first place) to try to do something that is, as far as I know, illegal
("tying" as Keith outlined)...by trying to prohibit other companies from
making consumables.

Austin

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