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Apple Sued Over Failing to Provide All Episodes of 'Breaking Bad' Season 5 for Season Pass Purchasers

Although I felt I was had for buying season 5 and getting just the half. I took it a a life lesson and am not buying the second half/final season.

If something comes from this suit, I will be glad, but I would not have wasted too much time for 30-odd $. Yeah, maybe I'm part of the problem for not complaining enough, but also, it's called "pick your battles". Right now most of my "battles" involve raising two kids with lots of character...
 
Actually this brings up a pet peeve of mine, how networks do this garbage now where they split a "season" in half and air it a year apart... That's a whole new season! Dont call it the same season when its aired (and filmed!) in different batches!
One of these days a greedy network is gonna pull this split-season stuff and their main star will get cancer or get killed in a wreck or something and then theyll just have no show anymore. Then i'll laugh at the network for their greed biting them on the rear...
 
Gus Van Der Mee said:
You can't put it all on just Apple or AMC. Both are at foult here. AMC for splitting the season without any heads up and proper information about it and Apple for not asking AMC why.


The store is still Apple's and that doesn't mean that it all is left for content providers without any curation.
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So it's Apple's chore to run after each and every piece of content and find out whether it's correct? You're nuts, to put it simply. The content provider is responsible for their own content, Apple is just the host and has nothing to do with it. Apple is only responsible that the customer gets the content they paid for and from my understanding in this case, this has been provided. He did not pay for the full season and only got half of it, he only paid for half. Of course it is too much to ask that he also would download and pay the second half.

To me it's astonishing that you can sue someone just because you couldn't RTFM, let alone have you tried resolving issues with the seller. I'm pretty sure Apple's help desk would have explained the matter. I've used them couple times when problems arose and they were outstanding in resolving them and made sure it was either fixed or I got compensated.

In other countries, you would get laughed right back out of court if you were trying to waste taxpayer money with a stupid lawsuit like that. And I sure hope this one gets a judge that uses some common sense and throws this one out too. And makes him pay for the tax money that he wasted.
 
i am with him on this, A "Season" pass should be for all episode in that "Season", if they split a season into two parts, with a huge gap, either call it season 6 when you come back, or give it me as part of the season 5 pass i already payed for,

As it is i would NEVER buy from iTunes anyway, too expensive, i buy the DVDs for a fraction the price and convert and tag then drop into iTunes for management.
 
EDL said:
So it's Apple's chore to run after each and every piece of content and find out whether it's correct? You're nuts, to put it simply. The content provider is responsible for their own content, Apple is just the host and has nothing to do with it. Apple is only responsible that the customer gets the content they paid for and from my understanding in this case, this has been provided. He did not pay for the full season and only got half of it, he only paid for half. Of course it is too much to ask that he also would download and pay the second half.

To me it's astonishing that you can sue someone just because you couldn't RTFM, let alone have you tried resolving issues with the seller. I'm pretty sure Apple's help desk would have explained the matter. I've used them couple times when problems arose and they were outstanding in resolving them and made sure it was either fixed or I got compensated.

In other countries, you would get laughed right back out of court if you were trying to waste taxpayer money with a stupid lawsuit like that. And I sure hope this one gets a judge that uses some common sense and throws this one out too. And makes him pay for the tax money that he wasted.
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Cool down, pal.
 
cfischer83 said:
I agree. I bought "season 5" of breaking bad last year knowing that there would be 8 more episodes, only to find that it's been split into "season 5" and "the final season".... Even though season 5 IS the final season. There was no disclaimer anywhere that I was only buying half a season (I checked thoroughly).
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Agreed… I assumed I'd be getting all of the episodes and that they were giving them out at a discounted price or something.
 
Eraserhead said:
So? It seems pretty straightforward that this guy is right.

I have no idea why he wasn't given a refund before getting anywhere close to court though.
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Who’s to say it wasn’t offered? He may have asked for more than Apple was willing to pay to keep it out of court, like a refund to all purchasers.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
What suffering this man has endured... The anguish! Somebody should get sued.

Every time a leaf falls from a tree, someone ought to be forced at gunpoint to surrender their lifes savings.

It's the American way.
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The only crying is from some Apple fanboys in a forum... like this.

I'm sure most of you would enjoy if 'seasons' were suddenly seperated into 2-4 episodes, all while being called seasons, as long as nobody dares say Apple could do any wrong?

This calling things seasons and then seperating the season is going on long enough.
 
Same problem with box sets

Similar at least - if it advertises a box set containing HD and SD films (most films in HD with the HD logo, and, say, one film still only in SD) then you only get SD of the whole box set, despite them having the HD logo on most of the films.

If someone can grab that and run with it, that would help too!!!
 
kwikdeth said:
Actually this brings up a pet peeve of mine, how networks do this garbage now where they split a "season" in half and air it a year apart... That's a whole new season! Dont call it the same season when its aired (and filmed!) in different batches!
One of these days a greedy network is gonna pull this split-season stuff and their main star will get cancer or get killed in a wreck or something and then theyll just have no show anymore. Then i'll laugh at the network for their greed biting them on the rear...
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I assume they’re calling it a season because it was ordered at once and is the same number of episodes as was formerly contained in an unspiilt season. A number of shows have received multi-year pick-ups in the past, like Big Bang Theory, Simpsons, Glee, Family Guy, and they weren’t called a single season as each was for the usual 22-24 episodes.

But yes, life would be much better all around if they’d say “Show X has been renewed for two more 8-episode seasons."
 
On a sort of related note, the final three episodes of Cougar Town season 4 still aren't available in the Canadian iTunes Store. I'm pretty sure the blame lies with CityTV (the Canadian broadcaster for the show), but this sounds like even more of a reason for a lawsuit than the Breaking Bad scenario for season pass holders.
 
You paid the correct price for Season 5A. Thinking you would get 5B for free is just silly.

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When a consumer buys a ticket to a football game, he does not have to leave at halftime, When a consumer buys an opera ticket, he does not get kicked out at intermission. When a consumer buys a "Season Pass" to a full season of a television show on iTunes, that consumer should get access to the whole season.
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A half time football show is an hour. Probably the same with the Opera. The break between Part A and B is 9 months.

I hope everyone gets nothing.
 
gizmodvd said:
you paid the correct price for season 5a. Thinking you would get 5b for free is just silly.

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a half time football show is an hour. Probably the same with the opera. The break between part a and b is 9 months.

I hope everyone gets nothing.
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ptsd?
 
Isn't this Sony/AMC's fault? Don't the content providers control everything in iTunes about their content (like app developers)?

Also, $22 for 16 episodes in HD without it being on sale? Come on...

Obviously this is just a misunderstanding. However, Apple should do something to make things clearer in the future. Although, don't season passes state something like "This season is planned to have 22 episodes"? I swear I've seen that before.
 
Season 5

The decision to split up season 5 into two "parts" aired a year apart and still call it one "season" is one that I've been scratching my head about since I found about it. And the only way I found out about it was by reading it on wikipedia a week before episode 8 aired. They made little to no effort to let people know there would be a "hiatus" or whatever they called it.
Now they're trying to get away with charging people for two seasons when people thought they were buying the whole season 5... They should get sued and they better lose. This whole season 5 a&b thing was a terrible idea from the beginning and people need to cry foul about it or we'll start seeing it happen more. If they want to split it up and still call it one season, instead of just doing the simple, straight-forward thing and call them seasons 5 & 6, then they need to TREAT it like one season and give all the episodes to people who pay for a season.

Or just don't split it up. That would have been good too.
 
cfischer83 said:
I agree. I bought "season 5" of breaking bad last year knowing that there would be 8 more episodes, only to find that it's been split into "season 5" and "the final season".... Even though season 5 IS the final season. There was no disclaimer anywhere that I was only buying half a season (I checked thoroughly).
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I've been wondering about this since July - I was sure I'd already paid for both "seasons" by buying the first.

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Nyy8 said:
People still pay for TV shows :eek:
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And will continue to, for the good of everyone who wants to kill off cable subscriptions.
 
chopdog said:
Similar at least - if it advertises a box set containing HD and SD films (most films in HD with the HD logo, and, say, one film still only in SD) then you only get SD of the whole box set, despite them having the HD logo on most of the films.

If someone can grab that and run with it, that would help too!!!
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That happened to me. Got full refund.
 
ThunderSkunk said:
What suffering this man has endured... The anguish! Somebody should get sued.

Every time a leaf falls from a tree, someone ought to be forced at gunpoint to surrender their lifes savings.

It's the American way.
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Right, we should just bend over and take it when we see wrongdoing. Is that supposed to be the American way?

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ValSalva said:
Yep, america is litigation nation :rolleyes:
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And this attitude is exactly what most corporations are hoping for. Demonize those who fight against them, best way to stop them from fighting at all.
 
JoeyCloverfield said:
Also, $22 for 16 episodes in HD without it being on sale? Come on...

Obviously this is just a misunderstanding.
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Exactly.

People were just being naive when purchasing the first 1/2 season pass and now want to cry about it once what they already knew was going to happen, happened.
 
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