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The exclusion eliminates the categories of damages most likely to reflect real-world harm from service failures — lost data, lost revenue, and consequential losses — leaving only direct damages potentially recoverable.
Interpretive note: The excerpt ends with an ellipsis, so additional excluded categories may exist beyond those stated in the canonical claim.
The reader cannot recover from Descript for lost profits, lost data, lost revenues, lost business opportunities, or any indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, incidental, or punitive damages.
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The exclusion eliminates the categories of damages most likely to reflect real-world harm from service failures — lost data, lost revenue, and consequential losses — leaving only direct damages potentially recoverable.
The reader cannot recover from Descript for lost profits, lost data, lost revenues, lost business opportunities, or any indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, incidental, or punitive damages.
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