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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 2 years ago

Eh the piracy sites never did that lol

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] rentar42@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Netflix "hides behind" licensing deals that restrict it but those are just as problematic as Netflix own restrictions.

[–] aairey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those really exist? Recently I’ve heard many comments from people who stopped paying and started sailing the high seas instead.

[–] aairey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yes, recently. The time context in the above comment is " a few years ago".

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Sorry what's the difference between geoblocking and restricting content based on country? Aren't those the same thing?

[–] ___qwertz___@feddit.de 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am wondering how this would affect public broadcasting on the web? This too is heavily affected by geoblocking.

[–] jman6495@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hi, I helped write the report. Public broadcasting would also be included :)

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So will we finally be able to watch "Parlement" outside France ahead of the European elections?

[–] jman6495@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do you think we wrote the proposal? πŸ˜‰

[–] bossito@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Excellent 😁

[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You work for one of the institutions?

[–] jman6495@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Anekdoteles@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

The best! :)

[–] aairey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I think this is exactly the point and also counts as "streaming".