McDonald’s busted ice cream machines can now be fixed — legally
www.theverge.com
For the next three years, anyways.

US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing third parties to diagnose and repair commercial equipment — including the ones that make your McFlurries.

The decision is part of the Copyright Office’s final rule granting exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This exemption-making process happens every three years and is supposed to ensure that the DMCA doesn’t negatively impact people trying to use copyrighted material.

Worth nothing that DMCA exceptions are reviewed on the same 3 year cycle and are frequently revoked. So if you’re a McD ice cream fan, enjoy it while you can.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    12 hours ago

    Wasn’t there a guy with a tool to diagnose and fix before this? Is this win only going through because ifixit is another corpo wanting some of the money?

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      16·
      10 hours ago

      The machines were exposed as designed to break specifically so they had to be paid to fix them all.

      Then someone sued someone ten years ago And now they can legally fix them in house.