An end to country restrictions for streaming within the EU?
An end to country restrictions for streaming within the EU?
"Radio or TV waves and Blu-ray discs don’t stop at borders in Europe, so why should video-on-demand?"
A single market is a single market.
Companies which discriminate between Europeans should get heavily fined.
Yes, I know the problem is often blamed on national governments, but we already have mechanisms to prevent national governments spoiling the single market.
Eh the piracy sites never did that lol
Kinda funny. A few years ago on R*ddit I ranted how Netflix and co don’t have to abide geoblocking laws and can just restrict content based on country and people called me an idiot for not understanding licensing laws.
And now this.
Netflix "hides behind" licensing deals that restrict it but those are just as problematic as Netflix own restrictions.
Licensing laws are an issue though. Just because they pass a bill saying you can’t restrict access to content doesn’t mean that they can open it up to a market that their contract doesn’t allow for. This could end up backfiring and having them remove lots of content from all regions in order to comply with this demand.
Yes, but just like the universal charger laws companies will simply have to alter their offerings to still fit the market. In the beginning they might have to pull some titles and frantically renegotiate, but remember that the owners of the media have a monetary interest in their material being accessible to customers. Future licensing deals will simply be different and encompass the entire EU.
Sorry what's the difference between geoblocking and restricting content based on country? Aren't those the same thing?
I am wondering how this would affect public broadcasting on the web? This too is heavily affected by geoblocking.