Judge rules Sirius XM’s annoying cancellation process is illegal

A New York judge has determined that Sirius XM’s “long and burdensome” cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found Sirius XM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription.

The decision comes nearly one year after New York Attorney General Leticia James sued Sirius XM over claims the company makes subscriptions difficult to cancel. Following an investigation, the Office of the Attorney General found that the company attempts to delay cancellations by having customers call an agent, who then keeps them on the phone for serval minutes while “pitching the subscriber as many as five retention offers.”

As outlined in the ruling, Judge Frank found that Sirius XM…

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