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Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers

Posted by samzenpus on from the naughty-list dept.

Sockatume writes "Since 2011, Amazon Instant Video has sold a series of Christmas shorts from Disney called 'Prep and Landing'. Unfortunately this holiday season, Disney has had a change of heart and has decided to make the shorts exclusive to its own channels. The company went so far as to retroactively withdrawn the shows from Amazon, so that customers who have already paid for them no longer have access. Apparently this reverse-Santa ability is a feature Amazon provides all publishers, and customers have little recourse but to go cap-in-hand to a Disney outlet and pay for the shows again."

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  1. Reverse Santa? by Millennium · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just call this a Grinch move and be done with it?

    1. Re:Reverse Santa? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Funny

      Being that Amazon and Disney are involved, it's probably more like the anal version of a Reverse Cowgirl.

    2. Re:Reverse Santa? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Funny

      I forgot to mention: You're always the one catching, and there's never any lube.

    3. Re:Reverse Santa? by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... and the pitcher is $RANDOM_MALL_SANTA.

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    4. Re:Reverse Santa? by EvilSS · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why not just call this a Grinch move and be done with it?

      Because Grinch is a registered trademark?

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    5. Re:Reverse Santa? by minstrelmike · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because in the end, the Grinch comes to learn the error of his ways and eventually saves Christmas. Somehow, I don't see Disney doing this...

      That's because you're thinking old-style Christmas.
      This is the new millennium; the Libertarian one.
      We only have to save Christmas for the already rich. The rest of us can play with the wrapping paper they toss in the garbage.

    6. Re:Reverse Santa? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

      The rest of us can play with the wrapping paper they toss in the garbage.

      Excuse me, mister I'm-rich-enough-to-afford-a-garbage-can, but we're not all made of money!

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    7. Re:Reverse Santa? by ganjadude · · Score: 2, Funny

      Exactly, The evol libertarians are destroying america with all their small government and individual freedoms

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  2. But --- by Pope+Raymond+Lama · · Score: 3, Funny

    After the Orwell's 1984 fiasco had not Bezzos "promised" he would never use this feature again?
    (Yanking content from the users?)

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  3. Re:Cue lawsuit in 3-2-1... by The+Cat · · Score: 1, Funny

    See the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution for why the Supreme Court is wrong.