[BetaDeltaAlpha]

I can put my home printer in a restricted vlan and block it from phoning back to HP. No laws needed (until the mfg tries to brick the device on loss of WAN access at least).

[josephcsible]

> until the mfg tries to brick the device on loss of WAN access at least

Didn't HP already do that with their Instant Ink program?

[fxtentacle]

Or until the manufacturer includes a cheap GPRS module in the hardware.