Where I get really annoyed is that Squeezebox Radio devices are rendered either really hard to use or essentially useless.
Factory reset is bricked because it relies on mysb.com (as I understand from the forums), but moreover something as easy as streaming internet radio shouldn't be possible to carpet-pull. I don't think it's a fair alternative to say "in order to use your kitchen radio, you should run your own LMS server on a computer that's always-on" (also why not just use the computer to play the radio then in the first place).
Owners of a Logitech Squeezebox Radio can also be senior non-tech people and vision impaired. People can be happy with their device and not able to switch, certainly not forced to switch with a damp announcement like this:
> We're shutting down our servers in 1 week. Here's a QR code that you can't > see if you're blind. And here's ZERO official advice about how you can continue > to use your radio.
For something as simple as streaming a few internet radio stations, it's super annoying -- and shouldn't be legal. There should be a strong consumer regulation to protect from such carpet-pulling. When a company markets a device, it should be obliged to keep the service running... otherwise pay back the money or go bankrupt.
p.s. small typo in the title, worth correcting to make this more searchable. Should be "UESmartRadio.com and MySqueezebox.com servers closing"