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If you're in the UK, vote "remain" or expect to be ten times as geoblocked.
by JulianMorrison 10y ago
If you're in the UK, vote "remain" or expect to be ten times as geoblocked.
- maffydub 10y agoCan you provide a reference for the "ten times as geoblocked" please? I support "remain", but hyperbole from both the leave and remain sides has made the referendum a bit of a farce.
- matthewmacleod 10y agoI support "remain", but hyperbole from both the leave and remain sides has made the referendum a bit of a farce. No argument with that, and maybe it's hyperbole, but I'd really expect exactly that situation to arise. It's certainly unlikely to make it any easier!
- JulianMorrison 10y agoI don't need to provide a reference because it's obvious that negotiations of rights are currently on an EU basis (because that's the big legal bloc) and they would suddenly have to be UK-specific, and what big company can be bothered to prioritize that?
- c3o 10y agoUnfortunately negotiations of rights are on a country by country basis. Copyright is not unified nor properly harmonized across the EU (...yet?). To show copyrighted content to all of Europe you need licenses for 28 territories. This might change, or at least gain some new exceptions ("roaming" for your Netflix account will come for sure; the other measures this campaign demands are up in the air at this point). These improvements of course would not apply if the UK leaves.
- evgen 10y agoWhile I love reading Süddeutsche Zeitung online as much as the next guy, I can't quite see how anyone else in the UK cares too much about being geoblocked from seeing Polish dramas or those wonderful shows being produced by RAI. On this particular political divide, the Leave campaign could make a better argument with "force the French to pay more to see our wonderful _British_ broadcasting corp shows"...