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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    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

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

    Let it burn

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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      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.

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