You're not paying for ink cartridges silly, you're paying for how much you print!
It all makes sense: if you stop paying for the service, you stop receiving the service, duh!
It's not illegal so it's crazy that people think they're this evil corporation!
Yeah my father was and old school programmer and suffered making printer drivers for Canon so I learned all about the grift. They love peddling this garbage to people who are just trying to buy printers for like their kids going to college and whatnot