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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.

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.

There was a heavily implied “THIS TIME” at the end of that statement.

Do you have some reason why you think they will be bankrupt and/or split up?

I wouldn't hold my breath for a bankruptcy - Disney has Gross profits of ~30 Billion a year and net profits of ~2-5 Billion a year. Even if their lawyers become completely incompetent and allow them to be sued for max penalties every month of the year, it wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket.

Yeah that's basically "slavery is okay if you sign a contract first". Should be self evidently wrong.

Arbitration, generally, is not a bad idea. It's less formal and usually less expensive when you have a disagreement. It really is designed for, say, two friends who are going into business together and want to keep things friendly while giving each other the ability to seek an external arbitor.

However, it's our late stage capitalism that has made forced arbitration an abomination, with corporations seeking to limit their liability by making it unprofitable for individuals to seek legal remedies against very large corporations. Corporations that have the legal equivalent of nukes verses the average customer who has a peashooter.

I'm at the point whenever I see these clauses to snail mail then my own terms and if they don't react, I assume that my terms were accepted. I've been doing this now for the last few years and have yet to have a company shut off my service or reply back.

“Right to arbitration”

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.

"Just when we have less heat on us and the news doesn't have everyone so riled up and hating us."

I'd say actually the only reason they backed down is because they realized they were going to lose and didn't want to risk their arbitration clause getting struck down in a court.

They said they decided to waive their right to arbitration. They still think that's their right, fucking sickening.

That made me so angry!

When this story first came up, an Ars Technica commenter explained that the only thing to do in this scenario is to grieve with the widow, and that it was a ludicrous fight to have. It's pretty bad for Disney to pretend like they agree with that viewpoint after already putting the widow through more distress.

They could settle out of cout for an amount that they could earn back in under a week. Now they wanna go to court where they'll end up paying more. Get fucked Disney

Some of us are old, confused and ignorant when it comes to that sort of (naughty) shenanigans. Is there a "piracy for dummies" somewhere?

Most of the time, nobody notices.