Threatened by potential EU regulatory changes, the movie, music, and sports industries are vehemently defending the practice of geo-blocking, as an essential part of their business models. Rightsholders argue that eliminating geo-blockades would devalue content, force price hikes for consumers in some countries, and ultimately reduce investment in content and localized services.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    23 days ago

    Don’t fund your oppressors folks…

    This is another example of how class war looks like in nuts and bolts. But there thousands other ways the corpo parasite will use the state against the taxpayer who funds it.

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    23 days ago

    The industry can go fuck itself. Actors, Football players, CEOs et al, don’t need to earn 25M€ per year. Spend less in wages for those cunts and you’ll see profitability rise without geoblocking.