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It gets worse with added context: signed up for a free trial of Disney+ on a PS5 many years ago.


It gets worse x2: the executor of the estate having signed up for Disney+ means the estate of the deceased loses the right to sue, despite the deceased having never signed up. Like a client being bound by all unrelated legal agreements their lawyer entered into.

(If I recall the details correct, it has been a while since I read into that case.)


Common sense and decency has departed the world's economic and legal systems for a while, huh?

It now seems to be a "how evil can I be without it affecting our bottom line?" system.


It's all just games, they just want to win. Dollars are the overall points, but they're even willing to sacrifice some of those to win bigger cases more brutally.




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