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.
I tend to agree, what we (of course) hear from the industry is that this “would result in price hikes”.
Also agree.
The price hikes happen anyway, so it’s not really a credible threat.
Glad the EU seems to be mostly sane on these matters.