McBroken

A new copyright rule lets McDonald's fix its own broken ice cream
machines
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Before this week, most of the McDonald's ice cream makers could only
be fixed through the machine's manufacturer. The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, which protects the code embedded in the ice cream
machines, made it illegal for third parties, like McDonald's employees
and franchisee owners, to break the digital locks installed by
manufacturers.

The new rule, which went into effect on Monday, allows outside vendors
to fix "retail-level commercial food preparation equipment." That
includes McDonald's ice cream machines, as 404 media journalist Jason
Koebler explained to NPR's Weekend Edition.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/02/g-s1-31893/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machine-copyright-law