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EU plan to ban geoblocking will lead to dull content, warn film-makers (www.theguardian.com)

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Allowing streaming between borders will result in films ‘aiming for lowest common denominator of human experience’

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The world is already somewhat 'consolidated' right now via services like Netflix, Hulu/Apple, Amazon content that mostly drops everything they make or commission internationally on day 1.

The point is that this all derives from a fundamentally archaic worldview. It's utterly absurd that I can't legally purchase or stream shows like Dummedag (an example) because I don't live in Norway. My only option in many cases is piracy. Do some of these studios not want people to purchase their content?

Here's my solution to this, the EU should've said: If you refuse to make your TV show legally accessible either to stream or to download for a certain country, piracy of that show within that country should be legal.