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If The Salt Lake Tribune sells subscriptions on their website, I think they're actually violating EU law again, geoblocking is illegal...

• andylynch 6y ago
  I doubt it, given they are not targeting the European market. As a Utah firm clearly without an EU nexus, why would they need to care about EU law (or any other country besides their own?)
  • TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
    They clearly do, otherwise the site wouldn't be blocked. And traffic is traffic. It's not that unusual for Rest of World to want to look at an obscure US site.
  • tinus_hn 6y ago
    Of course the same does not apply in reverse, if you run afoul of the DMCA you’ll just be extradited into the US jurisdiction.
• wasmitnetzen 6y ago
  That's not true, geoblocking of digital goods is only illegal in the EU if you differentiate between different member states. Blocking all of the EU is fine. If you want to read the whole regulation, it's here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.LI.2018.060.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2018:060I:TOC https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...
• macinjosh 6y ago
  News flash! The EU has no jurisdiction in SLC.
  • rualca 6y ago
    Your assertion only makes sense if you assume the only people accessing the site live in SLC.
    • AnimalMuppet 6y ago
      No. If my company, my employees, my offices, and my web server are in SLC, I can let you access it from anywhere in the world without worrying about the laws anywhere else. I didn't follow the EU directive? So? What are they going to do, send assassins? Sue me in EU court? What levers of power over me do they have that have any relevance whatsoever?