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Fixing McDonald's ice cream machines is no longer a felony

iFixit, along with advocacy group Public Knowledge, secured a win from the Copyright Office

Thom Dunn
Oct 29, 2024
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Image: Like_the_Grand_Canyon / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

It's a truth universally acknowledged that McDonald's McFlurry ice cream machines are broken more often than not. As of this very writing, there's about a 15 percent failure rate across the entire United States, according to McBroken.

In 2023, the folks at iFixit tried to figure out the source of the pr…

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