The reputational damage that team of lawyers did to the company massively outweighs the cost of a settlement. I personally will never do business with a company who thinks the EULA or TOS of one service indemnifies them from egregious negligence in a completely different line of business. This was simply beyond the pale.
Edit to note: Despite the title, they aren’t actually reversing course, they still claim they have the right to force arbitration, they are just choosing to waive it in this instance. If you do business with Disney, you are a fool.
Most people won’t have heard of this. But even if they did, it’s Disney. They own so much media that even if you did avoid everything Disney-branded, you might still find yourself watching something from Marvel movies, National Geographic Partners, Pixar, Lucasfilm, FX, ABC news, ESPN, Hulu… I can go on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_the_Walt_Disney_Company
Probably can’t avoid everything Disney, but I will try avoiding situations where they could physically harm me or my family.
So, life goes on as usual
Disney states they “Waived their right to arbitration”. A weasely way of seeming to agree with the public sentiment, but actually avoiding having this ruled on right now so they can fine tune the language and try again later.
Too fucking late
Too fucking little
When you see [Everyone Hated That] pop up after your last choice, and you panic and try to load a previous save, but the game remembers what you already did.
They should rule on it anyway, and strike these arbitration clauses from the face of the earth. That’s why Disney is backing down, not because of “oh, the humanity”.
Memes save the world yet again.
Only $50K? What happened? Did she say she was allergic to something and thy served it to her anyways?
Yes. And $50k is way too low.
No, it’s not.
From fucking Disney? Are you kidding me?
As someone else explained, and no one seems to care - the MINIMUM under the statute is $50k and they are almost definitely going for more.
People keep leaving out the “at least” part of the $50k.
“…in excess of $50k.” This language is defined by the Florida Wrongful Death statute and means at least $50,001 but can be much more.
Got it. Thanks!
Too late.
I’m sure, I’m not the only one who definitely isn’t going to try out Disney+ anytime soon.
After I had to seperate my Netflix account from my nieces and my sister, I actually planed to switch to Disney for a while to see what they offer, but not anymore.
I was gonna hire the mafia to kill my cheating bitch wife but now I just need to watch Lilo and Stitch without pirating it. They’re heroes if you ask me.
I wonder what becomes of the Hulu people being merged into Disney? Do they auto sign the new terms by simply continuing service?
In such cases you normally get an upated terms of service notification.
If you are in the EU new regulations now demand, that the costumer actively has to agree with updated terms. Otherwise its normally just a notification with a small print ->if you don’t object you automatically agree.
It’s not too late for the actual reason they withdrew: They’re not at risk for forced arbitration to be challenged in court.
I just meant the damage in the public eye had been done.
Of course there are other legal implications, but I wasn’t talking about that.
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