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Andy Meek
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Back in the summer of 2018, the beleaguered movie ticket app MoviePass was attracting a firestorm of complaints from users who were unable to use the app (for which they were paying $10 a month to see one film per day) to buy tickets for some new blockbusters, like Mission: Impossible -- Fallout. "As we continue to evolve the service," CEO Mitch Lowe said at the time, in a statement released to tamp down some of the complaints, "certain movies may not always be available in every theater on our platform. This is no different than other in-home streaming options that often don’t carry the latest shows or movies that may be available on other services.”
What MoviePass was also doing behind the scenes, though, and which was different from pretty much every other company not drowning in a dumpster fire of poor decisions, is something that's only just now come to light.
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MoviePass changed passwords to lock out users once it ran out of sane ideas originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 9 Aug 2019 at 18:04:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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