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Re: HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times

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On 2024-03-02, Internetado wrote:

> HP's "All-In Plan" requires a constant internet connection so that the
> company can see not just how many pages you're printing, but what file
> types. It costs up to $36 per month.
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/hp-all-in-plan-printer-subscription-service/

This has been making the rounds on fediverse (or at least on Mastodon?)
for a while now - I guess HP is trying really hard to kill their printer
business. Which, a looong time ago, might have been something they
didn't suck at?

Now is this going to happen only with inkjet or with their laser
printers too?

Even without this, I'd discourage getting inkjet printers sold by
HP. I've twice seen such printers rendered useless or harder to use by
brittle materials.

With this pricing, HP printers might also be more expensive for those
who have a cheaper printing service available nearby. Might depend on
whether one wants to print often in color, though.

Also, what about when the copyright cartels get hold of this and start
requiring that HP inflates prices with payments purportedly to
"compensate for printing protected works". Or have they already done
that?

-- 
Nuno Silva

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HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times "Internetado" <internetado@bbs.alt119.net> - 2024-03-02 20:10 -0300
  Re: HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-03 09:50 +0000
    Re: HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2024-03-03 21:53 -0500
      Re: HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times Arthur Conan Doyle <dont@bother.com> - 2024-03-04 12:59 -0600
        Re: HP Wants to Rent You a Printer That It Monitors at All Times jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2024-03-13 18:00 +0000

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