{"id":7881,"date":"2013-09-17T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2013-09-24T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T21:08:59","slug":"itunes-breaking-bad-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/itunes-breaking-bad-swindle\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes&rsquo; Breaking Bad Swindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/itunes-breaking-bad-swindle-making-two-seasons-out-of-one\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/itunes-breaking-bad-swindle-making-two-seasons-out-of-one\/\"><p>Back when season 5 of Breaking Bad started, iTunes sold a season pass that offered &ldquo;all current and future episodes of <em>Breaking Bad, Season 5.<\/em>&rdquo; When the producers decided to lengthen the season, and split it into two parts, Apple reneged on their commitment, no longer providing &ldquo;all current and future episodes.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/09\/07\/breaking-bad-fans-sue-apple-for-cutting-short-season-pass\/\">class action suit<\/a> has been filed.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/09\/07\/breaking-bad-fans-sue-apple-for-cutting-short-season-pass\/\"><p>The claim also says Breaking Bad&rsquo;s creators and actors have consistently described the 16 final episodes as &ldquo;Season 5.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2013-09-24): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/apple-refunds-purchasers-of-split-breaking-bad-season-5\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a> received a credit for purchasing the remaining episodes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: Back when season 5 of Breaking Bad started, iTunes sold a season pass that offered &ldquo;all current and future episodes of Breaking Bad, Season 5.&rdquo; When the producers decided to lengthen the season, and split it into two parts, Apple reneged on their commitment, no longer providing &ldquo;all current and future episodes.&rdquo; A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,189,41,209,600,97],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-itunesstore","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-tv-show","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}