They have had plenty of opportunity to fix it, and they haven't. Let's face it, they won't. All we can do is publicise this as widely as possible via Facebook etc so that people know not to buy Canon products.
That's very interesting, as that does definitely seem to indicate that it is something in a Canon firmware update which is the cause (deliberate or not) of this error message.
I am in the UK. There has been no publicity here about this issue. I only found out about it by googling the error and came upon this forum. My guess is that unless Canon get very much more bad publicity than they have so far, they will do nothing. W...