Yesterday, the traditionally highly conservative legal affairs committee voted to end geo-blocking of films and series in some limited contexts. It’s a tectonic shift from the previous position of the legal affairs committee, and comes ahead of today’s vote in the more progressive Internal Market & Consumer protection, where MEPs will call for a gradual abolition of geo-blocking.

  • Teon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    [speaks in pirate voice] So they finally figured out that people can still watch/listen to geo-blocked media, but now they want money for it. LOL!

    • jman6495@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      So the crazy thing is the audiovisual lobbyists didn’t even want us to mention piracy. Like, we wanted to say that we need more legal avenues for access to content to reduce piracy, and they wouldn’t accept it.