[abawany]

Maybe I misread but apparently the company is offering refunds up until Dec-31 to anyone who purchased one of these.

[FICO]

That doesn't mean they are going to require you to ship the machine back to them.

(I'm assuming there's tons of people who are going to miss that deadline anyway)

[abpavel]

If it's Internet-connected, it might not squeeze without an approved API call from the vendor.

[FICO]

Yes, absolutely, but it can be gutted for parts or rewired to bypass the API. The latter is not straightforward but someone did so in a video posted in these comments.

[Grustaf]

They might remove the drm as a final act of goodwill

[trapperkeeper74]

That would be some serious activation DRM for pressing juice, although it does defend their (failed) business model.