Amazon is pushing back against a lawsuit accusing it of misleading Prime subscribers by charging them an additional fee to stream movies and TV shows without ads.
In a bid to dismiss the proposed class action, the company argues that it previously disclosed that the bundle of Prime benefits is subject to change. It says that it “never guaranteed that any particular” perk of the package would “remain available indefinitely.”
“Amazon never promised—to Prime members or anyone else—that Prime Video would be always, or entirely, ad-free,” the Friday filing states.
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