All Paramount+ Annual Subscribers are Getting Royally Screwed - Looking for an FL Class Action Attorney
We've been annual subscribers to Paramount Plus for a few years now, even back during the Pandemic. They sold their annual subscription fairly inexpensively back then ($65/year, I think), but had they offered little content beyond a few old movies plus Taylor Sheridan franchise series. Paramount was really a 3rd tier streaming service. They still are much less than Netflix, Hulu or HBOMAX even now.
They raised their annual fee every year, and we renewed twicd, and as they now had "Landman". We renewed the annual service for Paramount about 7 months ago. They slowly added a few new release movies, just a few though.
Suddenly, they've changed their entire rate structure. Now, even though we paid for an ANNUAL ad-free subscription, we can't access most of their good content. Some of this newer content, for example a movie called "The Minature Wife" I had added to my own Watchlist, and had ready access to it through my annual subscription. Now, I don't.
Now, I am being forced to "Upgrade" to pay either $10.99/month for ad-based streaming content or an even higher $16.99/month for ad free content. There is no credit whatsoever for my existing ANNUAL membership.
Paramount is essentially breaching their implied contract with all existing annual subscribers (like us) and forcing any and all subscribers to update to their new full price monthly or annual scheme, while FORFEITING any existing membership.
Several subscribers have posted about this on the Paramount subreddit.
Other streaming services let your annual subscription run until it expires, then the new pricing kicks in. But, Paramount Plus has blocked off most newer content we previously had full access to even 10 days ago, and we can no longer access these movies or series without "upgrading" by abandoning any remaining portion of our annual subscription.
This is either breach of implied contract, or bait and switch, and it clearly violates Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (DUTPA).
The amount per subscriber being "taken" by Paramount would add up to many millions of dollars from many thousands of Florida subscribers (and subscribers in every state for that matter.)
I'd love to hear from a Florida licensed class action attorney or firm interested in this case.