As if DRM wasn't intrusive enough

It appears as though Lexmark, makers of laser printers and crappy, proprietary inkjet printers, wants to take Static Control Components to the cleaners over it's production of replacement "smart chips" that allow current production laser printers "recognize" the cartridge. They claim that the software that is being used in the smart chips is theirs and is there by subject to the same DRM as Sony is trying to foist on you. If this goes through, the remanufacturing of toner cartridges will be a thing of the past and I may be out of a job...sort of.