Canon printer cartridges are being forced to sell cartridges without a Digital Rights Management (DRM) chip, or the copy protection component that discourages you from using third-party printer ink. Owners of the affected printers will see an error message from Canon explaining that the ink they installed can’t be recognized. In an unconventional notice published to its German-language website, Canon gives customers instructions on how to bypass the same erroneous error messages consumers have condemned as being anti-competitive. The error messages were first report by Twitter user @Mariowitte who wrote (translated from German): “Thanks to the lack of semiconductors, Canon is apparently producing toner cartridges without ‘copy protection’ and sending out emails to customers with instructions
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