{"id":1001381,"date":"2026-04-06T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001381"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:00:46","slug":"italian-court-rules-netflix-price-hike-clauses-are-void-orders-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/06\/italian-court-rules-netflix-price-hike-clauses-are-void-orders-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian court rules Netflix price-hike clauses are void, orders refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rome court has ruled as unlawful price increases imposed by Netflix \u200bon its Italian subscribers over \u200bthe last seven years, and has ordered the U.S. media \u200bgiant to reimburse them, a consumer association said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Consumer group Movimento Consumatori said in a statement that the court had upheld its lawsuit against Netflix Italia and deemed unfair clauses that allowed \u200csubscription price \u2060increases from \u20602017 to January 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Netflix said in a statement that it would appeal against the court&#8217;s decision. &#8220;We take \u200bconsumer rights very seriously and believe our terms have always complied with Italian laws and practice,&#8221; \u200bit added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rome court has ruled as unlawful price increases imposed by Netflix \u200bon its Italian subscribers over \u200bthe last seven years, and has ordered the U.S. media \u200bgiant to reimburse them, a consumer association said on Friday. Consumer group Movimento Consumatori said in a statement that the court had upheld its lawsuit against Netflix Italia and deemed unfair clauses that allowed \u200csubscription price \u2060increases from \u20602017 to January 2024. Netflix said in a statement that it would appeal against the court&#8217;s decision. &#8220;We take \u200bconsumer rights very seriously and believe our terms have always complied with Italian laws and practice,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}