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.

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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 12 hours ago

Why do you hate success, boy?!

These people work very hard selling you shit you don't need!

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Taxation isn't voluntary

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 10 hours ago

Paying for any media slop is ;)

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Does VPN help, in this case, to avoid geo-fencing?

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 12 points 14 hours ago

Usually yes. In some cases, companies will block access to known VPN IPs outright.

But most of the time, the cost of policing that is way higher than the revenue they'd get from the handful of VPN users that decide to go through proper channels rather than decide not to engage, or worse, spread word of their anti-consumer practices and potentially lose legitimate business.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

How are we going to pay a football player 50 million if you don't allow us to cheat everyone and squeeze every cent out of them?

Fuck them

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

We argue that we won't be able to buy a second gold plated swimming pool if these rules are gone!

Let it burn

[+] Ciralinde@lemmynsfw.com -10 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I wish EU geofenced their NAFO-shills from commenting on war in Ukraine on international platforms.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 7 points 13 hours ago

I wish you'd get geofenced from commenting on any platform ever. Alas neither of us will get what we want.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I wish Russia would stop bombing Ukraine and the USA would stop its proxy war on Gaza.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 9 hours ago

US is guilty as fuck in suppotting the genocide but let's not remove the agency of the Israeli Jew here mate

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And you're what, a yank?

Americans having views on a war, that they too have backed, fought on Europe being spouted without counterpoint is fine?

The Russo-netsphere is close to clear of ideological opposition to a total unconditional Ukraine-EU-NATO surrender.

Edit: you're actually Ukrainian. I'm sorry for the way that NATO-Russia have no regard for your homeland and it's people. It would be nice to have more Ukrainian views on it all more amplified. War is shit, and complicated. Whether to fight or not should be a Ukrainian decision, not NATO, EU, US, or Russia.