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Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes

Posted by samzenpus on from the heisenberg-is-not-happy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last night's episode of Breaking Bad was one of the most intense in series history, but for those who haven't seen it yet, don't worry, I won't be putting out any spoilers. You see, today's Breaking Bad news has nothing to do with Walter White's slow transformation into Scarface, but rather with a legal suit filed against Apple by a Breaking Bad fan. In a lawsuit that many saw coming, an Ohio man named Noam Lazebnik recently filed a class action suit against Apple upon finding out that the $22.99 he forked over for a 'Season Pass' of Breaking Bad was only good for the first 8 episodes of the show's final season."

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  1. Amazon, others doing it too by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 4, Informative

    From what I understand, other vendors are doing it as well, and it was due to a decision by AMC. Besides, if they charge $2.99 per HD episode, and the season pass was $22.99, wouldn't it seem peculiar to give such a big price break for 16 episodes? Not trying to excuse Apple, just trying to introduce a little reason into the debate. I think the fault ultimately lies with AMC and the way they decided to break up the season into two parts.

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  2. Re:Why is Apple the one being sued? by jonwil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple did not split the new season in 2 parts but they ARE the ones that sold it as a "season pass" and didn't say anywhere that the "season pass" is not good for the entire season.

    To me its a fairly simple case of misleading advertizing.

  3. Re:First World Problems by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Informative

    *I seriously doubt this was apple!s decision. Wrong party to sue.*

    well apple sure was the party that sold the season pass... even if apple wasn't the party to decide that the final season is actually two seasons.

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  4. Re:AMC split season 5 by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps someone at Apple made the mistake of thinking they were two separate seasons.

    The studio sure seems to be encouraging that mistake. They are selling DVDs saying "The Fifth Season" on the packaging with no hint that it is half of a season

  5. Re:Why is Apple the one being sued? by msauve · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, if you go to the AMC website, you'll find videos from the second half labeled "Season 5, Episode 13" and such.

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