Josh D’Amaro said in a statement to The Verge. “As such, we’ve decided to waive our right to arbitration and have the matter proceed in court.”

Sounds to me like they just want to keep that umbrella waiver in the Disney+ agreement rather than have that, rightly, struck down in court. They are very much still working under the assumption that a subscriber clicking "I Agree" to watch The Mandalorian waives any right to trial against any business unit of Disney Corp for any reason.

Absolutely despicable.

"We got caught by the public, and we want to keep this excuse possible in the future. So we're dropping it from now so the court doesn't set a legal precedent that will fuck us over."

Arbitration is an abomination, abused to quash the rights of regular people who could hardly afford to take a stand against the big guy in the first place.

That a person can sign away their legal rights at all is a miscarriage of justice.

I fucking hate Disney.

With such unique circumstances as the ones in this case, we believe this situation warrants a sensitive approach

Yeah if they possessed sensitivity they would've never tried this. The only reason they changed their mind is public backlash which would've been obvious to foresee.

So they're myopic and insensitive. Also just cruel. It doesn't matter in the slightest if they could've gotten away with this. It's straight evil to try it.

we decided to waive our right to arbitration

Fuuuuck you with an umbrella. You didn't have that right, you just used that bullshit idea to save yourself from rightful consequences. You only stopped that idea after the massive backlash, as always. You don't get to act like the good guy uere., fuck you.

I can't wait for Disney to go bankrupt and be split up in twenty normal entertainment companies

we’ve decided to waive our right to arbitration

That's legalese for "We still think that we have that right, we will use it again".

"We've decided" lol. Keep telling yourselves that

lol they still think they have the right to arbitration.

we’ve decided to waive our right

"we are not wrong, fuck you"

I'm just confused how anyone thought this was a good idea to begin with. Surely the strong public backlash could have been easily anticipated.

Boycott Disney, the high seas exist if you need to get your fix

"unique circumstances" we got caught and too many people heard about it

Too. Late.

I don't advocate the high seas.

But man, a TOS like this makes me glad I didn't watch Andor via Disney+. I certainly don't feel bad about it now.

And to the Disney legalbot, I watched it via a friend, of course.

Jesus, this story made me feel so fucking gross. So fucking disgusting what they were trying to do.

A disney SWAT team kicked down my door and scream-asked me at gunpoint if I'd seen the Mandalorian.

I hear it's been happening a lot.

The guy lost his wife. Fuck Disney for trying this shit.

For a company that pushes so hard to have family friendly image, they had to pull this ridiculous stunt.

I wonder how these stupid attempts ever get pass these supposedly smart executives. You have to be pretty stupid to hold someone to a agreement that was over four years before. The idea that you are bound by a contract for a online service after you cancel it is absurd and downright stupid.

Disney: Guilty of murdering its resort guests as well as the entire Star Wars franchise.

I wonder if anyone cancels their Disney+ over this. I know I would if I had it.