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Earlier this month, MoviePass announced that its customers, previously allowed to see one movie per day, would be limited to just three per month. At the time, the company said that the change wouldn't affect annual subscribers until their plan renewed. But it looks like MoviePass has changed its mind yet again, and probably to nobody's surprise. The company began circulating an email today notifying annual plan subscribers that they too will be limited to just three film showings per month.
"As of today, aligned with Section 2.4 of our Terms of Use, your annual subscription plan will now allow you to see three movies a month instead of the previous unlimited offering, and you'll receive up to a $5 discount on any additional movie tickets purchased," the email said. "This is the current standard plan now in effect for all current and new subscribers." And because the move is retroactive for the current monthly period, which varies by customer, some users will find that they've already seen their three movies once they receive the notification email. The company claims it "intends" to expand its offering of blockbuster and independent films in light of the plan adjustments.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/24/moviepass-annual-subscribers-three-movie-plan/
(Score: 4, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 27 2018, @04:57PM (3 children)
Huh? You mean Movie Pass doesn't have an ironclad TOS prohibiting lawyers from suing them? Won't that lawyer you describe have to submit to an arbitration process, held in a court building on top of Mount Everest, according to all the applicable laws of The Republic of Everest?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @06:22PM
No
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday August 27 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)
The TOS can be clad in any metal you like, and declare whatever it wants. The point is that there is no TOS preventing lawyers from suing them, and lawyers often are good at that sort of thing.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @08:37PM
Actually, that's no longer true, courts have been shockingly OK with people signing away their rights to sue and permitting companies to use crooked arbitrators to settle the matter.
It's the judicial race to the bottom where the people no longer have legal rights because pro-corporate judges keep getting seated. Even the fact that all options in a given space require agreeing to binding arbitration and bans on class action suits doesn't seem to impact the rulings.