Disney tried to force the case into arbitration by citing the agreement on the widower’s Disney Plus trial account.
Disney has now agreed that a wrongful death lawsuit should be decided in court following backlash for initially arguing the case belonged in arbitration because the grieving widower had once signed up for a Disney Plus trial.
“With such unique circumstances as the ones in this case, we believe this situation warrants a sensitive approach to expedite a resolution for the family who have experienced such a painful loss,” chairman of Disney experiences Josh D’Amaro said in a statement to The Verge. “As such, we’ve decided to waive our right to arbitration and have the matter proceed in court.”
I wonder how they concluded this “welp it was worth a try, good job team”
Insane that there was no one from Disney side who did not try to stop this in the first place. Don’t mind the empathy, nobody saw this as a bad move for their image? Unless they were being sued for 100+ M I don’t see how this made sense financially for them.
And this terrible dry response from them, insane.
A disney SWAT team kicked down my door and scream-asked me at gunpoint if I’d seen the Mandalorian.
I hear it’s been happening a lot.
The guy lost his wife. Fuck Disney for trying this shit.
“unique circumstances” we got caught and too many people heard about it
Boycott Disney, the high seas exist if you need to get your fix
Some of us are old, confused and ignorant when it comes to that sort of (naughty) shenanigans. Is there a “piracy for dummies” somewhere?
Use a VPN device and use strem.io. Or if you want self hosted copies, get a VPN, download qbittorrent, and then hit up 1337x. If you want a free front end, you can setup Jellyfin on an old PC and direct it to your media.
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a good place to start. Check the megathread / FAQ
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Use at own risk
we’ve decided to waive our right to arbitration
That’s legalese for “We still think that we have that right, we will use it again”.
“Just when we have less heat on us and the news doesn’t have everyone so riled up and hating us.”
That’s legalese for “We still think that we have that right, we will use it again”.
Or for “we don’t want this to get invalidated in court - we need to save it so we can intimidate someone else in the future”.
I think they realized that this is the kind of case that could affect arbitration laws if pushed up in appellate courts.
we’ve decided to waive our right
“we are not wrong, fuck you”
For a company that pushes so hard to have family friendly image, they had to pull this ridiculous stunt.
lol they still think they have the right to arbitration.
They could settle out of cout for an amount they could earn back in under a week. Now they wanna go to court where they’ll end up paying more. Get fucked Disney
Honestly I assumed they were pushing this simply to drag out the proceedings. That would force the widower into a position where they couldn’t afford to continue, ensuring they would take whatever NDA Disney offered for whatever amount.
“We’ve decided” lol. Keep telling yourselves that
“Right to arbitration”
Jesus, this story made me feel so fucking gross. So fucking disgusting what they were trying to do.
Sounds to me like they just want to keep that umbrella waiver in the Disney+ agreement rather than have that, rightly, struck down in court.
Yeah, imo they got worried that people would start asking government agencies to make legislation about things like this, so theyd rather backtrack now so they can keep it as part of their TOS.
An umbrella arbitration clause like this, if it were argued at court, surely would only be held up for cases related to Disney+. At least one would hope. Having such an agreement cover entirely separate arms of a company is ridiculous.
Arbitration contracts, especially in click-through licenses, are always bullshit and should be universally thrown out.
Arbitration contracts
especially in click-through licensesare always bullshit and should be universally thrown out.There should be no reason why a corporation ahould be able to avoid the justice system for any reason.
I could see very specific cases where arbitration makes sense with a very well defined scope. “Parties agree that disputes over widget quality related to this agreement are to be adjudicated by the Widget Quality Counsel”. The courts are not always the best arbiters for every dispute.
However, what we have now is every corporation finding ways to slide arbitration clauses of global scope into every transaction. That is always bullshit.
If you give an inch, they take a mile. No forced arbitration clauses, anywhere, ever, period.
All unilateral contracts where one side holds all the cards and can arbitrarily dictate or even alter previously agreed to terms should be held to the strictest standards. This includes employment agreements, terms of service, license agreements and so on.
Contracts between equals can be more permissive.
Agreed. It’s pretty telling that none of these corporations would accept an open ended arbitration clause in their dealings with any other corporation.
There was a heavily implied “THIS TIME” at the end of that statement.
You agreed to Disneys TOS
Assassins from Disney licking their fingers because they can legally kill you /j
Its the dumbest death you can have in an amusement park, dying because the restaurant didnt labeled their allergies right and that the corporation tries to dismiss it because of an DIGITIAL contract that was made for a digital service.
But this is the bs that you got by applying law so freely.
Yep, exactly.
They’re asserting and graciously waiving a “right” they invented themselves in order to keep that from being challenged in court.
Just this time, because I care about Disney so much, I’m waiving my right to steal from Disney.
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