Information systems of this type are typically low cost and high volume. They would be seriously impeded by high liability risk. If Dupond was in a relationship of special reliance on Dow, consequential loss would be recoverable. In this published content, Dupond cannot recover the consequential loss. Disney licenses a motion picture to Vision.
Vision shows the movie through an on-line access contract.
One viewer who pays five dollars is shocked by the violence and spends a sleepless week. That audience member should have no recovery at all, but if it can show that there was a breach, the individual could not recover consequential loss since this is published content. The Article does not require proof with absolute certainty or mathematical precision. Consistent with the underlying principle of Article 1 that there be a liberal administration of the remedies of this Act, the remedies must be administered in a reasonable manner. However, this does not permit recovery of losses that are speculative or highly uncertain and therefore unproven.