“Logo Text Amazon Will Not Have to Face A LAWSUIT Accossing It of Misleading Prime Subscribers by Charging An Addrational FEE to Stream Movies and TV Shows Without ADS. US DISTRICT Judge Barbara Rothstein on Wednesday Dismissed The Lawsuit, Finding That Addition of Commercials Don’t Constitute”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Amazon Will not have to face a lawsuit account of Misleading Prime Subscribers by Charging an Additional FEE to Stream Movies and TV Shows Without Ads.
US District Judge Barbara Rothstein on Wednesday Dismissed The Lawwsuit, Finding That Addition of Commercials Don’t Constitute A Price Increase Buter A Modification To. Amazon Disclosed In Its Terms That Bundle of Prime Benefits Is Subject to Change, The Court Said.
Amazon Last Year Pivated to Making ITS AD The DEFAULT FOR ITS Over 100 Million Subscribers, Turning The Service Into A Streaming-Ad Juggernaut. Users Were Required to Pay An Additional $ 2.99 per month to watch without ads, whoyh they argued constituted a Mid-subscript price initase.
The MOVE SPARKED A PROPOSED CLASS ACTION FROM CONSUESUMERS WHO HAD SIGNED UP for Annual Subscripts. They claimed Breach of Contract and Violations of Consumer Protection Laws Over the Alleged “Bait and Switch.”
The ruling was grounded in the notion that subscribers purchased Access to Prime Video Rater than An ad-free version of the Service. The Introduction of Commercials Didn’t Result in Any Out-of-Pocket Price Increase to Subscribers Who Didn’T Pay The Additional Fee to Watch Without Ads, The COURT SAID.
Rothstein Pointed to Amazon’s Terms, WHICH STATE THAT The Company “Reserves the Right to Suspend or Discontinue… Any Part of the Service” and that there may be changes. These Terms Give Amazon Broad Authority to Modify Prime Benefits, Including Prime Video, at Its Discretion and Without Notice, Accounting To The Order.
“The Court Concludes that Amazon’s Introduction of Advertisements to Prime Video Was Not A Price Increase Parties’ Governing Agreements, ”Rothstein Wrote.
Amazon Didn’t ImmediaTely Respond to A Request for Comment.
Policies and Methods Governing Subscripts Have Been Coming Under Increase Scrutiny. NBCuniversal on Wednesday Agreed to Pay $ 3.6 Million to Settle A Lawsuit Accessing It of Failing to Provide Users An Easy Mechanism to Cancel Automatic. This Came After A Federal Appeals Court Struck Down The FTC’s “Click to Cancel” Rule, WHICH Wuld’ve Barred Companies from Making it More Dificult to Cancel A SubsCrip.
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