Breaking Bad fans sue Apple over splitting up the final season
Helping us narrowly avoid fulfilling our daily quota by posting a story titled, “Here Are Some Words That Rhyme With Breaking Bad” (Baking Fad, Waking Brad, Faking Tad, Aching Nad, etc.), an unusually irate Breaking Bad fan has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple, over iTunes’ splitting up of the fifth season. The decision to divide the show’s final episodes into blocks of eight has already cost viewers so much, in terms of hours spent waiting and impatiently speculating that might otherwise have been devoted to charity. But for users of iTunes’ Season Pass, it’s cost them an additional $14.99 ($22.99 for HD)—a fee the lawsuit argues is unfair, given that plaintiffs purchased a Season Pass for the show’s fifth season fully expecting to get all 16 of its episodes. Instead, Apple cleverly maneuvered around this by renaming the last eight “The Final Season,” then requiring an all-new payment from subscribers to access them.