HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs/

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

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Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s about $14.5M or €12.7M

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What, is that like the cost of a dozen of their ink cartridges? That fine needs a lot more zeros.

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- kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The secret sauce of successful business is corruption on the government level that will help you even when you got caught.
  
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SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
HP is a dogshit company that makes dogshit products. I have never had a good HP product.

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- RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The cheap laser printer we bought long time back, almost a decade ago is surprisingly working well. But I doubt any recent products would come anywhere close while being a lot more expensive.
  
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  - SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The last HP printer I had was useless because they made an update that prevented it from using third party ink cartridges. Fuck then entirely.
    
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- Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  HPE still fuckin afaik
  
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