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[-] [email protected] 213 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can legally kill anyone related to someone who has had Disney+.

Iirc, the wife died, the husband sued, and they tried to say the husband can't sue because HE had had the subscription a long time ago.

Each subscriber loses the right to sue for any of their loved ones.

After all, if they're dead, they can't sue you anyway

[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If it really boils down to this, how can one fight back? I don't wanna sit here and see these sad articles blow by, what can I do to tell Disney to fuck off. I did not sign up for this, I wanted to watch funny cartoons and superheroes like a normal person, and this is my reward? If suing them is futile, is storming their office and yelling at their corporate head about this any better? I'm pissed, and I can't sit here and wait for other legal heads to shut this stupid clause down.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If it really boils down to this, how can one fight back?

Historically? Guillotines in the village square, and/or Molotovs through the front windows of the overlords’ house. The rich learned a long time ago that when no other recourse is left, people will eventually turn to violence. And they learned that keeping the poors placated is a matter of life or death. Because money and fame won’t stop an angry mob, and even trained soldiers will get overwhelmed by sheer crowd size.

I believe Sun Tsu wrote something applicable in The Art of War, along the lines of “Always leave a surrounded army a way out. Show them a way to life so they will not be compelled to fight to the death. Because even an exhausted army will fight to the death if they have no other option.” So the rich and powerful set up systems that are heavily skewed in the rich’s favor, but at least attempt to appear fair on the surface. They set up a visible “way to life” so that people could at least feel like they had a viable way of fighting back without resorting to violence.

But recently, the rich and powerful seem to have forgotten that, and have dropped all pretext of fairness. Now it’s just blatant “you’re going to be killed and there’s nothing you can do about it.” Which means that the people are eventually going to be forced to fight to the death, because they’re cornered and see no other option. And I genuinely believe that if things carry on this same trajectory that people will turn to violence as a means of recourse, because it’s quickly becoming the only effective recourse that is within reach.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

As time goes on, I am more and more convinced that media piracy is morally acceptable.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Always has been... none of this shit is new, just the audacity is amped up.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

It is a moral imperative for anyone who considers themselves to be a protector of their family to just pirate Disney shit instead

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

He only had a free trial which makes it even crazier. Also I don't know who thought an arbitration demand would apply to food vs a streaming service, but as insane as our court system is with judges siding with money I can't see a judge feeling a TOS could be THAT fluid is like Nike refusing to return a pair of sneakers because you're cousin owned a copy of NBA JAM in the 90's, although you never played it.

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[-] [email protected] 131 points 11 months ago

Always remember it's morally ethical to yar har Disney content

[-] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

It is by far the best reason they could give anyone for being pro piracy. Forget the morality of it anymore, when the alternative is signing your life away it would be stupid to pay for it.

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[-] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago

The restaurant was directly responsible for the woman's death. The husband went after Disney because it was in Disney Springs and the website said the restaurant worked with allergies. It's more the ghoulish lawyers

[-] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

It doesn't change what Disney tried to do to get out of it.

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[-] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago

You are more physically, financially, mentally, and psychologically safe by pirating Disney content than legally renting it.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago

I can't comprehend how they give so few f's about their image as to even contemplate that in public.

I hate to be a back in my day kinda person, but there was a time at which large family-friendly companies were concerned enough with their image not to pull that shit, at least out loud.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Perks of being a monopoly. Every time someone gets upset with them, their response is just dripping with a "you'll be back" mentality. Same as u/spez during the reddit third party app stuff.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

I love my wife too much not to pirate Snow White.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago

Why the fuck is it allowed to force arbitration when someone dies? It’s insanity

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

It's okay, they didn't force arbitration. They decided to "waive their right to do so."

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Watching Mr. Robot now makes this meme hit hard

[-] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

I wonder what the internal discussion looked like after this.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

I can't believe they were only seeking 50,000$ too.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

M'fers had a meeting and a lawyer brought up the Disney+ TOS and they all agreed that was a great idea. Corporate nods all around. Idiots.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

But for real, shit’s starting to get weird

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Disney; just know that if I die because of you my Wife has strict instructions to mail my burning corpse to Bob Iger's home address. We will not see you in court.

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