https://qz.com/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machines-federal-regulators-1851339089
Federal regulators want to fix McDonald's broken ice cream machines, and they're asking to expand right-to-repair laws to address the issue. In a letter to the U.S. Copyright Office on Thursday, regulators asked for commercial soft-serve machines to be exempt from current laws making them difficult to repair. The laws also make it more difficult for you to get a McFlurry.
"In the Agencies' view, renewing and expanding repair-related exemptions would promote competition in markets for replacement parts, repair, and maintenance services," said the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in a joint letter.
The McDonald's broken ice cream machines have found themselves at the center of the right-to-repair movement. The reason McDonald's ice cream machines are always down is because of copyright law. Only technicians licensed by the company that made the device are allowed to touch the machines, and they charge over $300 for a 15-minute servicing, according to the letter. The DOJ and the FTC identified commercial soft-serve machines as one of four device categories that would benefit from an easing of copyright laws.
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As reported previously on SN, McFlurry machines have been at the centre of arguments about Copyright vs the Right to Repair. Now it seems that the US Copyright Office have delivered a victory to McDonalds Franchisees and third parties by allowing them to bypass the Technological Protection Measures (TPM) to repair the devices.
The final rule adopted by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was based on recommendations made by Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the US Copyright Office. The ruling came in the ninth triennial proceeding to determine exemptions under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The process provides exemptions for the next three years to "the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that effectively control access to copyrighted works."
"The Register recommends adopting a new exemption covering diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of retail-level commercial food preparation equipment because proponents sufficiently showed, by a preponderance of the evidence, adverse effects on the proposed noninfringing uses of such equipment," the Register's findings said.
Opposition to the change came from McDonalds corporate and the machine manufacturers, Taylor Company, as well as the Entertainment Software Association, Motion Picture Association, and Recording Industry Association of America
For those who enjoy a punny good time:
The change should "spark a flurry of third-party repair activity and enable businesses to better serve their customers," Rose said. "While we are disappointed that the Register recommended a narrower exemption than we had proposed, this does not soften our enthusiasm. We will continue to chip away at half-baked laws blocking the right to repair, sprinkling consumer victories as we go. Today's win may not be parfait, but it's still pretty sweet."
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Thursday July 04 2024, @02:02AM (2 children)
McToilets McToilets McToilets McToilets
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday July 04 2024, @02:46AM (1 child)
I think the Hon.R.Rude, Esq, presents the McDonalds rant [youtube.com] a lot better than that.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday July 04 2024, @01:58PM
Nah... takes him 10 mins to say what i did! ;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday July 04 2024, @02:52AM (17 children)
Because the right to repair McD fast food machines is clearly the most important issue in right-to-repair right now.
How about Apple computers?
Or John Deere tractors?
I'm quite sure it's a lot more important that farmers keep their independence - for them and for us who consume what they grow - than being able to get a fucking ice cream.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 04 2024, @03:30AM (15 children)
Look, you're chauffering Sleepy Joe around. He doesn't wake up, and ask for a MacBook Pro, or a John Deere tractor. No, he wakes up and asks for a McDonald's ice cream. Do you have any idea how much whining that dinosaur can do when Micky says he can't have an ice cream?
Priorities. You've got to have your priorities straight.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Thursday July 04 2024, @05:34AM (14 children)
There are plenty of opportunities for humour - you don't need to turn every story into a political issue. Leave if for your journal please.
Enjoy your 4th of July!
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 04 2024, @03:27PM (13 children)
Uh-huh. Do you make that same post when people are dumping on Trump? Didn't think so.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 04 2024, @03:28PM (11 children)
Besides which - the discussion is about GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT in an issue that many of us feel strongly about. Yeah, it's a political story.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday July 04 2024, @04:30PM (10 children)
It is NOT about the current or future President. Don't act like an idiot. It is about your government and in particular federal regulators.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 04 2024, @11:26PM (9 children)
Don't act like an idiot, the man says. And, I could ask you to stop being an overbearing ass. More specifically, stop using your position as an administrator to shape discussions to your liking. My comment got 13 moderations, with a net of +4 funny. Public figures are ALWAYS subject to ridicule. Well, in America they are, at least. I don't need a special dispensation from janrinok to mock a D, or an R, or an Independent, or any third party political figure. Nor do members need that special dispensation to laugh at the joke.
Is this the sort of thing that Soylent members have to look forward to, when SN ownership has changed? Are you going to ban all non-progressive members?
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday July 05 2024, @05:59AM (8 children)
Now your comment either got 13 moderations or I am shaping the discussions. Which do you want to claim is the truth?
If you want to discuss politics please put it in your journal. If you want to discuss the topic then your comments are welcome. It was a request. I don't care about your politics. If you wish to mock your politicians then you can do so elsewhere. I don't care on which side of the political divide you want to position yourself. The thrust of this site is STEM. What we are currently seeing is a repeat of the commenting that happened prior to the 2016 and 2020 elections where almost every story is picking up political sniping and being twisted into another political argument. It resulted in a loss of community on both of those occasions. We cannot afford to do that again.
You haven't been censored - you have been moderated. Your comment is still visible. Please learn the difference between the two. You use moderations yourself frequently - are you claiming that you censor others too?
On the 5 Jan 2022 the then lead admin (Martyb) posted a Meta [soylentnews.org] which explained that the primary rule for the site was Wheaton's Law [wheatonslaw.com]. Please try to follow that advice.
If you wish to continue the discussion please send me an email. This thread is rapidly becoming off-topic.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 05 2024, @11:45AM (7 children)
Bottom line here is, a discussion involved government. I inserted an entirely appropriate joke about a government figure. One or more Sensitive Sallies have whined about me mocking their ideologic hero, and you are taking their side. My joke didn't constitute starting a political discussion. Nor did it properly require a request from a staff member that I restrict political discussions to a journal.
No, I don't want to communicate via email. The community needs to know what is happening, you don't get to hide your actions behind the scenes. Transparency, remember? Why don't you run a poll, asking how many members approved of my post that you object to? Oh, wait, we already did that. Some disliked my post, but more liked it. It's all right there in the moderation history. You have no grounds upon which to ask me to change my posting. No grounds at all.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday July 05 2024, @12:11PM (6 children)
What a good idea. Shall we also run a poll asking members how many agreed with statements that you have made elsewhere in your journals? How many support your views regarding how many Americans should die on order to justify the world that you want to see. How many agree with your insistence that every American should have the right to hold weapons which are used to kill schoolchildren, or people shopping in a mall?
I am not taking sides. The worst offender also spent many years trying to get his extreme political views, which were quite opposite to your own, on the front page. He got the same advice that I have given you. Put it in your journal. Leave the rest of us to have our on-topic discussions. You are more like him every day. You already have a place where you can write what you want and I will support your right to do so. The front page stories are NOT that place.
You want a poll? Get of your backside and organise it. Make it fair. Include everyone. Don't try to pass that task to the handful of volunteers that are currently trying to save this site and ensure that it has a future. Contribute time and effort rather than trying to have things your own way. You are only 1 member of a community.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 05 2024, @12:50PM (5 children)
A lot of damned fools like to quote and/or misquote that post I made jan. There was a discussion about another civil war in the United States. I pointed out in that discussion that in our first civil war, 0.8 million Americans died - officially. That doesn't count civilian deaths, that were direct and indirect results of combat. Nor does it count some of the "irregular" forces casualties, who weren't officially part of the Union or the Confederacy. I pointed out that we can expect a helluva lot more deaths in a more modern day civil war, for reasons including a much greater population, as well as more efficient killing methods. And, I clearly stated that I want those deaths to be disproportionately high on the liberal/left/Democrat side.
You have alluded that you take great pride in your military service, jan. Tell me that if you were involved in a hot war, that you would want anything other than disproportionately high casualties on the other side? You know, the sort of thing we see in Gaza today, where Israel has killed hundreds of enemies for each casualty they have suffered. Are you going to tell me that you would PREFER that your side suffered all the casualties? Or, "proportionate" casualties? That concept of 'proportionality' is so god-damned retarded, I can't find the words to properly describe it.
And, please stop hiding behind declarations of impartiality. Your comments over the years quite clearly put you well over on the progressive side of the spectrum.
Trying to save this site by silencing ME???? Really? I endanger this site? Explain that. In depth. Seriously, you need to publish for all the world to see how Runaway1956 endangers this site's future. Could it possibly be that one or two or three individuals who help to finance the site are threatening the site, if I am allowed to post my thoughts to the site? Please, publish those details for all the members to see. Transparency. Soylentnews once seemed to pride itself on transparency. And freedom of speech. Please explain how freedom of speech endangers the site.
I'll state plainly here, for all to see: If there are one, or six, or even twelve supporters of this site who require my silence for them to continue supporting the site, then THEY are the danger to the site. Not me, jan, but them. The gatekeepers are the danger, not me. You don't need gatekeepers in a free society.
Also, once again, you compare me to HeWhoWillNotBeNamed. And, you are blowing smoke out your ass every time you do so. That individual clearly stated his mission or goal of "taking down" SN well before the sock puppet war. You may apologize to me at any time, for casting me in the same light with that individual. I started that sock puppet war for the purpose of exposing him, and that little war was a complete success from my point of view. Not only did I expose him, but I enraged him to the point that he spelled out his own mission in life, for everyone on SN to see. Only the blindest of the blind could pretend that he wasn't out to destroy the site.
Do you think maybe it's time for a reset? Stop treating me like the enemy. I contribute to the site, financially and otherwise. Stop comparing me to that damned fool who was quite properly banned years ago. And, don't make another offer to PAY ME to go away. Yes, that's right, I still have that email in which you offered me money to just go away, and stop bothering you. Was that your idea, or one of those Sensitive Sallies who keep whining about my posts?
Transparency, jan. Put all your cards on the table. WTF do you want from me? You put it all out there, so that all the membership can see, and understand what you are demanding of me. We ain't hiding any of this in emails.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by janrinok on Friday July 05 2024, @02:00PM (4 children)
I have supported your right to say what you wish in your journal. I have argued with others here that your right to express yourself remains a right that I, and this site, support. You can say whatever you wish in your journal. Just do not bring it to the front page stories.
Nobody is trying to silence you. Where have I said that? You do not endanger the site. I requested that you leave your political views for your journal. You are the one that has blown it out of all proportion IMO (again). You could have just let my comment be and this would have been finished.
I know that others found your comment funny - so did I. I acknowledged that humour has a place on this site. However, it is a slippery slope. If we allow you to start with little things such as an out-of-place joke then others will respond. You will possibly make further similar political statements. After all, nobody said anything after your previous one. I nipped it in the bud. it stopped. Please don't do it again.
It does not matter what your motives are for making political jibes. If it results in the same thing that others wished to achieve such as turning people away from the site then it will have the same result. Leave the front page stories alone, please.
I am not treating you as an enemy. But you are currently too sensitive. You object even to polite requests given in private via Admin-to-User messages. There isn't meant to be a way for you to respond to them other than email. Use it.
Ah, so you like some jokes but not others? That is exactly how people feel about your political sniping. It is great fun to you, but others just want to have a site where they can have intelligent discussions. That is also a problem with humour - it can be misinterpreted. But I didn't publish mine. I thought you would see it for what it was. I am disappointed but perhaps not surprised.
I want you to enjoy being on the site. I want you to participate as much as you wish without driving others away. If what you are saying is on-topic then fine. The discussion was about McDonald's broken ice cream machines about which some people have made informative comments which explain how the company forces the franchisees to fit the machines, but also has a second company that charges exorbitant prices to repair them. The Federal Regulators are arguing that the 'right-to-repair' the machine is being blocked. They are both topics (business / liberties) that we regularly discuss. It has absolutely nothing to do with your Presidents - current or past. It is NOT a political topic.
I, along with other staff, are being entirely transparent. We have made our aims and intentions clear. They have been published. We do not want political comments anywhere that they do not belong. But if you want to continue this discussion then you had better be prepared to use emails. This is Off-Topic. I will moderate myself accordingly.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 05 2024, @02:03PM (3 children)
That is what I have told you, in emails, and elsewhere. Stop policing me.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 06 2024, @01:24AM (2 children)
Will you just shut the fuck up and take your L like a big boy? It's not the end of the world.
Maybe, and I know this is asking the impossible, sit down and do some self-reflection. Ask yourself "am I, Runaway1956, so vile that the administrator of a site created around free speech uber alles sees the need to publicly humiliate me? And if so, what can I do to improve?" Yeah, probably not happening but a girl can dream right...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 06 2024, @11:57AM (1 child)
One word: no.
Free speech uber alles is history, ask jan. What happened to AC posting? And, no, I don't need to "improve", so you just keep dreaming. Don't you have a queer pride to attend? Don't you want to watch naked men prancing among the children, with their junk hanging at eyeball height of the children? Just look at this little girl committing a hate crime against queers https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/heartbreaking-photo-young-girl-covers-her-eyes-as-nude-men-walk-past-during [lifesitenews.com]
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 06 2024, @11:11PM
I've actually never been to any sort of Pride event and find the entire concept baffling. It seems like a stupid idea to make people think you're any more bizarre than they already do, but what do I know...?
That said, what does that have to do with Jan giving you a well-deserved public spanking and you whining and crying like a spoiled little toddler about it? The more you bitch, the worse it's gonna sting, bottom boy :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday July 04 2024, @04:31PM
Yes, if they do it in a story that has nothing to do with politicians.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 3, Touché) by epitaxial on Thursday July 04 2024, @04:14AM
Almost like the government is able to investigate multiple issues at the same time.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Captival on Thursday July 04 2024, @07:18AM (3 children)
I've heard about this problem for years now. Why don't they just start switching machines to somebody else? They're one of the biggest chains on the planet, somebody has to be willing to work a deal for their business.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Thursday July 04 2024, @09:23AM (1 child)
There's a whole mess with the contractually obligate "repair" company paying kickbacks to McD's corporate.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday July 04 2024, @11:08AM
More fool them, then.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Friday July 05 2024, @12:46AM
IIRC, other companies don't have a problem with these machines. MacDonalds has a problem because it insists on using the machine differently, having to do with different sanitation procedures if the machines run uninterrupted 24 hours a day. Other companies clean the machine when the restaurant is closed, and they do it every day: no problem. MacDonalds has screwed itself.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Thursday July 04 2024, @07:50AM (2 children)
I would have imagined that the federal issue was the false advertisement that they, McD, claim to have icecream. Which they never do since the machine is always "broken". Not a right to repair issue. As that machine seems to have some kind of congenital defect that makes it break down constantly. Clearly it's not a very complicated issue if it just takes about 15 minutes to fix. I guess the fix is just to replace one part over and over again or something. So it's not really fixing the problem, just pushing it further down the road. The machine appears to be broken by design.
It's somewhat odd that the other similar "restaurants" can keep serving icecream and such all the time, I guess they just bought better machines. Cause it's always only, or mainly, a McD problem.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2024, @08:57AM
If you do some research there is some shifty business involved. Some of the C-class at mickys head office have some deep links into the rip-off company. The franchisees who have to foot the $1200/hr bill are required to use only those machines.
(Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Thursday July 04 2024, @02:34PM
They haven't gotten busted yet for claiming to sell "food," so they probably feel safe.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by anubi on Thursday July 04 2024, @08:02AM (2 children)
This was my main concern about Congress passing all this patent and copyright law. That is that it would be used to enforce planned obsolescence, in practice to use legal means to enforce everyone into the subscription model by simply having copyrighted technology time itself out.
Enforced monopoly.
As far as I am concerned, if I bought it, and it breaks, I feel I have the right to do anything I want to my purchase in order to make it work again...and that includes giving and getting information and replacement parts from whatever means to effect bringing my purchase back up to its original functionality.
While I don't feel they are liable to me beyond their warranty, I also feel that if I paid in full for a durable, I should be able to maintain it indefinitely.
Businesses like to work in an environment where once I have made a purchase, I no longer have any control whatsoever of the monies I tendered as payment for my purchase. I expect the same consideration on my side, that is they also surrender any control over any goods they exchanged to me for my payment.
I'd like to see something like this in the Uniform Commercial Code...
"Should any rightsholder exercise copyright or patent violation against another party for making replacement parts, the rightsholder agrees to make the replacement part available at the price and delivery existing when the assembly the part fits was released.".
What I am asking for is to keep copyright/patent law from weaponizing enforced retirement of otherwise usable goods to our landfills, mandating consumers to purchase again to meet their need.
If the company that made it won't support it, then hold harmless anyone who wants to fill that support need to do so.
It seems our legislators pass all sorts of law to meddle in our affairs in the name of "green". Now, what I have outlined will result in significant reduction of toxic electronic waste if implemented properly.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday July 04 2024, @02:46PM (1 child)
You can do that. Franchise op, probably not.
The problem as I understand it is if you sign a contract with corporate that you'll be a good little franchise operator and run your restaurant per corporate's rules, and their rules are based on corporate getting a kickback on a nationwide service contract that charges over $1000/hr repair fees to franchise operators, you're essentially voluntarily being taxed by corporate.
It would be like if corporate declared you can only be a franchise operator if you buy a VERY specific model of McToilet paper from a McCompany that overcharges the franchise operator by $2 and kicks back $1 to corporate on each roll of McTP, essentially it's a use tax.
Now if "everyone's making tons of money" nobody cares. But when the parking lots are empty, like now, suddenly the folks who signed the franchise contract are in rebellion, etc.
The irony is corporate has a budget to meet and if they need $1 they'll get $1 some other way; it seems fair to "tax" their operators based on use because the more ice cream you sell the more you'll need to repair the machines, but if no longer legally permitted its not like they'll crash the budget by $1, they'll just crank up the other fees by $1. As usual the only people who will make money are the lawyers.
Also the McD business model has changed over the years from selling mid to low grade "food adjacent products" to being an employment scheme. So they mainly make money by "employing" unemployables in exchange for government tax dollar kickbacks. Thats why you see McD out there with full staff doing nothing and empty parking lots but it "seems like" a real business. They don't need a working ice cream machine to collect govt funds, so they don't repair them, leading to the legacy business model customers getting weird about this restaurant refusing to sell them "food". But being a restaurant is not their business model any more its more like a welfare day-program.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday July 05 2024, @07:45AM
Thanks for that.
Yeh, franchisees have to agree to onerous T&C too.
I guess in the name of uniformity of operations...like all the coke machines and flavors available the same no matter which franchise one visits...
But fixing the ice cream machine sounds too much like a routine maintenance issue, like plumbing or electrical maintenance usually done by local tradesmen.
I am considering a local pizza parlor, where I met the owner and discovered the old mechanical Cramer time switch on his dough mixer was driving him nuts...by forcing him to stand for 15 minutes holding the Start button in. I recognized the circuit, he had an egg-timer, and I popped the cover of his old Hobart mixer and did a slight wiring change that took the time switch out of the run circuit. So it was now purely manual with latching start and stop buttons. And had Grainger get me another switch, which I swapped back in the next week.
That guy made me a pizza every time I came in until he sold the place. I'd pay the lunch price but he would fix me up with something that I don't think I could even buy anything like it anywhere. When he told me how much the cost was for factory support for his 50 year old machine, I was floored. Thousands of dollars? And change the control panel? Over a broken mainspring?
I figured the McD franchisee would have done the same with a local fix it guy.
When the ice cream machine at our local HomeTown Buffet went on the fritz, I asked about it, only to discover yet another patron was familiar with the machine and had already fixed it. Loose drive belt. So the motor pulley just spun against the belt, heating it up so it smoked, and made one hellacious racket in the process. Then we all had ice cream the next time we came in, as the machine has been off for several days, needed to be cleaned, then the new ice cream needed a couple of hours to come to the correct temperature and consistency.
I like these small towns where we all know each other and co-operate to keep our stuff running. However the old ways are dying out, replaced by terms, conditions, contracts, and terribly big bills.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday July 04 2024, @02:00PM
They also claim that they have food that "I'm loving it".
They are wrong.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 0, Troll) by DadaDoofy on Thursday July 04 2024, @07:13PM (1 child)
"The reason McDonald's ice cream machines are always down is because of copyright law."
What a ridiculous assertion. McDonald's voluntarily, and of their own free will, entered into a contractual agreement with "the company that made the device". If they don't like what the company charges to fix the machines, they can source them from another manufacturer or make their own.
This is just another example of this site's crusade against private property and copyright protection thereof. What incentive do creators have to create if their means of making a living can be freely stolen, by each according to their need? In any case, good luck with this. Thankfully, the US Supreme Court has just shot down regulators' ability to cook up their own laws.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Mykl on Sunday July 07 2024, @04:19AM
You've missed the point.
While McDonald's Corporate entered into the contract willingly, the franchisees did not. Further, there is strong evidence / proof of corruption in the deal, with executives who work at Corporate having a commercial interest in the repair company, essentially meaning that they personally profit when one of the machines goes down.
This sort of conflict of interest is illegal in most countries (I am not a US lawyer, so can't comment on the situation there), and for good reason.
As to your "they can source them from another manufacturer or make their own" - the point is that the franchisees can't do that without the approval of Corporate who, as we noted above, profit handsomely from the current situation.
This is far from a free market situation, and absolutely nowhere near IP theft at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2024, @12:52AM
Smells like a scam even if it isn't.
Elsewhere in the world most McDs don't have ice cream machine problems to this level. And I doubt there's a higher incidence of food poisoning cases related to those ice cream machines, so you're not getting much more safety for the increase in costs and prices (someone is paying extra for this mess).
Guess it doesn't count as a racketeering scheme? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering [wikipedia.org]
Coercive? Yes to the franchisees.
Fraudulent? Maybe?
Extortionary? Maybe?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by cereal_burpist on Wednesday July 10 2024, @03:19AM
The FTC is Investigating Why McDonald’s McFlurry Machines are "Always Broken" [soylentnews.org]
Bot Orders $18,752 of McSundaes Every 30 Minutes to Find If Machines are Working [soylentnews.org]