Aug 03, 2026
Adobe shut down its servers and quietly shifted away from software ownership.
Adobe shut down its servers and quietly shifted away from software ownership.
Weber's killing your June oven's app and still selling subscriptions for it.
June's smart oven sold for as much as $1,495 on the promise of remote control, live video, food recognition, and recipes. Weber, which bought June in 2021, announced it would shut down the app and cloud servers on September 22, 2026, ending those features along with paid recipe subscriptions on ovens only 4 to 10 years old. Because pairing runs entirely through June's servers, any oven that gets factory reset can never be connected to a new phone, leaving future owners locked out for good.
Published Aug 10, 2026
What happened
June sold a camera-equipped smart oven for as much as $1,495, and the connected features: remote control, live video, food recognition, and recipes, were the entire selling point.
Weber, which bought June Oven back in 2021, recently announced that on September 22, 2026, it would shut down the app and cloud servers, killing remote monitoring, remote control, live video, notifications, and the recipe subscriptions people paid for.
These ovens are only 4-10 years old, and Weber cited no cost or technical reason, just that it's "focusing resources on new innovations" elsewhere.
Four days after announcing the shutdown, Weber was still selling the $49.99-a-year recipe subscription on the App Store. Auto-renew was still on, and the listing said nothing about the shutdown.
Those same cloud servers control one other thing: whether the oven can ever be set up again. Pairing runs entirely through June's servers, so once they go dark, you can't connect a new phone. That means anyone who factory resets to resell or gift the oven, leaves the next owner locked out for good.
FULU's takeaway
Weber killed the features that justified a $1,495 price tag without giving a cost or technical reason, and kept selling a $49.99 recipe subscription with auto-renew still on for days after announcing the shutdown, which shows exactly how little the company considered the people who paid for these ovens.
Why this is a law problem
Most of these entries involve a digital lock guarding copyrighted software, and a lock like that sits under Section 1201 of the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. 1201. Subsection 1201(a)(1) makes it unlawful to bypass a lock that controls access to a copyrighted work, even when no copyright is infringed. Subsections 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1) separately ban making or distributing the tools that do the bypassing.
Every three years the Librarian of Congress can exempt narrow classes of uses from the first ban. An exemption expires after three years and has to be re-argued, and the rulemaking has no authority over the tool bans, so a granted exemption still leaves no lawful supplier for the means to use it. FULU exists to reform or revoke this statute.
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Nothing on these pages says any company named here violated Section 1201. FULU is not a law firm, and this is not legal advice.
The original post
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