What started as a casual joke about how Mickey D’s is famously known to never have working ice cream machines ballooned into an all out marketing war when Wendy’s teamed up with the developer of mcbroken.

The U.S. Copyright Office just granted an exemption that will allow third parties to diagnose and fix commercial food preparation equipment, such as McDonald's ice cream machines. Before now, only people who were trained by and work for the brand that makes their machines, Taylor, were allowed to work on these machines.