It’s crazy “not the onion” territory.
Thing is, Disney wins a lot of lawsuits. What if they actually win this, especially in a higher court? Every tech company in the US would shove this into their TOS and basically be immune to lawsuits like this…
Agreed, this is such bullshit.
Forced arbitration is in my opinion already a bullshit thing, but saying that the TOS of your streaming service applies to your resorts, parks and restaurants is something so dystopian that I can’t believe this even could have been stated seriously.
The consequences of the result of this lawsuit are going to be fucking ridiculous.
Yes. A woman died of allergic reactions when eating at a disney-owned restaurant after telling the waitstaff repeatedly about her allergies.
Her husband then sued the restaurant, because that’s already fucking insane.
Disney then argued that actually, the court didn’t have jurisdiction because the husband had agreed to arbitration when he signed up to Disney+'s free trial 2 years prior.
His lawyers seem to actually be worth their money and are fighting this.
In my fantasy timeline this is forced to go to arbitration but the arbiter actually is a human being who is so outraged at the circumstances that they award the entire net worth of the Disney corporation as damages in a legally binding non-appealable decision.
In reality, the arbiter is a private official who is being paid by the corporation. It doesn’t seem great for business if they side against them…
This is true, but it wouldn’t actually be the first time that an arbiter gave an unfavorable result to its employer: https://youtu.be/u9Jmi9BOBNA?si=mOEPKERF8Z8YFrOi&t=8m38s
Companies left and right will start creating EULAs with forced arbitration clauses for all kinds of crazy things… Shit like “Being in the general vicinity of one of our buildings, you agree with our license terms”. Or “saying the name of our company, you agree with our EULA”. Or “By being alive, you agree to our EULA”.
Luckily it has been decided just showing it to you, or having it exist but not showing it to you, are not enough enough to say you agree. They must show it to you and you must actually agree to it. The issue is we have to go through these all the time. Even if you’re a lawyer, there’s no way you have enough time in your day to read all of every EULA that comes your way. You have to assume they aren’t too bad.
There really should be length and understandability requirements to this stuff. Maybe create a standard form all of them can choose to include for all the basic stuff so you know it in advance. Everything else must be under a given length and can’t be too hard to understand.
Maybe it will be spark we need to really do something about big corporations.
There’s no way in hell, the precedent would basically mean murder is legal.
Plus most courts are Right Wing now and Republicans hate Disney.
I hate that I am hoping for right wing hate to get out of a world where signing up for a Disney+ Free Trial gives Disney immunity from manslaughter on account of negligence.
What a fucking cursed timeline.
Even worse, it’s not just if you sign up for Disney Plus, it’s if any of your survivors sign up for it.
Yea that’s bloody ridiculous, especially since that guy signed up for that in 2019. Dude agreed to a TOS half a decade ago and now can’t even try to get compensation for the loss of his wife. How is this in any way acceptable?
can’t believe I lost my dragon scimitar from being lured to disney world
Suits scheme how to avoid measly 50k$ when someone fucking died with their eyes bulging out of their skull out of asphyxiation. Shitting and pissing and kicking in terror. Maybe if they watched some proper recording of such scenario they would be less psychopathically detached from the situation
That women had an EpiPen, imagine yourself having an allergy, making sure to inform the staff at a restaurant multiple times that you have an allergy, bringing an EpiPen with you just in case, and then as you struggle to breathe you use the EpiPen and yet it doesn’t help.
This has to be so terrifying, to struggle to breathe when you know you did everything you could to prevent this.
Those lawyers probably earn more in a month than the man could ever get from this lawsuit.
RUNESCAPE!!!
