From the AGPL:
reply>When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures.
This doesn't apply because their cloud service, which has the "technological measure" is not the "covered work", as incompetent as the measure might be...
replyThat's copyright circumvention not CFAA authorization circumvention
replyEven with a user agreement I think they need to gate their service behind that agreement, otherwise the agreement is optional and open ports are open for use.
replyYou still need to form a valid contract - no notice, no assent, no contract.
If there's a gate that's being bypassed then this all changes but it doesn't seem like there is - and it doesn't seem like they can add one without breaking existing printers.
In this case, you're signing up for an account and entering into the user agreement to do so. There's a whole separate legal discussion to be had about the whole "scroll past it all and just click accept to make it to away" thing...
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