Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable #McFlurry machines makes a ...
The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable #McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war9/
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