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Agreed -- it's entirely non-sensical in how it's enforced as well. I'm a US expat, and travel fairly regularly for work; when I first left the US, I retained my
by csydas 8y ago
Agreed -- it's entirely non-sensical in how it's enforced as well. I'm a US expat, and travel fairly regularly for work; when I first left the US, I retained my Amazon Prime subscription, naively thinking "A video is a video, who cares where I am?" Then I learned about distribution rights, and how absolutely terrible companies are at informing people about whether or not certain content is actually available in their region or not.
Unless something has changed since the last time I checked (2 years back, so happy to be proven wrong), there is no official method provided to consumers to determine if you can actually utilize most streaming services from any given country/region, and this is extremely frustrating to me. Streaming should be perfect for me as it's preferable to keep what I carry as light as possible, and yet I know that I cannot rely on any streaming service to reliably provide me with the content that I signed up with the intention of viewing/listening to.
Granted, I guess that's my fault for traveling, but it just seems very silly that one situation where streaming is the perfect solution, it fails completely due to distribution rights.
- IronBacon 8y agoThey were going to force a "single digital market" in EU but I haven't heard news about it recently.
- zucan 8y agoThe digital single market for online content services is effective since April: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-portability-online-content-services https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-p...