<story><title>End Geoblocking</title><url>https://endgeoblocking.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobltobs</author><text>Please do not make another law. Most of the laws produced by the EU in regards to the internet do usually not help anything, but just place another burden on the shoulders of small to midsized companies. Look at the VATmess or the stupid cookie law.&lt;p&gt;Some possible outcome could be that you are forced to offer your service in the whole EU, even if you are just a small,  online fan shop for a second liga soccer club.&lt;p&gt;All those EU laws usually just help the big multinational companies to keep startups out of the market.&lt;p&gt;The EU should stop producing any laws at all and concentrate on harmonising the endless supply of 	inconsistent laws in their member states.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>This. The answer to geoblocking is to just pirate the content if its unavailable to you. Don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;whine&lt;/i&gt; that international corporations cannot profit off you. If you are somewhere they decide not to support paying them, you were never a part of the decision to make the content for profit in the first place.&lt;p&gt;They &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; economic pressure on them &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt; to broadly accept payments from as many places online as possible, because its effectively free money. We don&amp;#x27;t need legislation when the market is already set up to correct for the behavior.</text></comment>
<story><title>End Geoblocking</title><url>https://endgeoblocking.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobltobs</author><text>Please do not make another law. Most of the laws produced by the EU in regards to the internet do usually not help anything, but just place another burden on the shoulders of small to midsized companies. Look at the VATmess or the stupid cookie law.&lt;p&gt;Some possible outcome could be that you are forced to offer your service in the whole EU, even if you are just a small,  online fan shop for a second liga soccer club.&lt;p&gt;All those EU laws usually just help the big multinational companies to keep startups out of the market.&lt;p&gt;The EU should stop producing any laws at all and concentrate on harmonising the endless supply of 	inconsistent laws in their member states.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>Or you know, those &amp;quot;stupid&amp;quot; laws that let you live anywhere in EU, study anywhere in EU, work anywhere in EU and buy things anywhere in EU and carry them anywhere else in EU.&lt;p&gt;The utter stupidity of the fact, that you can drive 20km over Austrian&amp;#x2F;German border, buy a DVD, then drive back (which EU demands to be allowed) and then be denied streaming that exact same content is staggering.</text></comment>