02.09.2016 - 17:05 [ Techdirt ]

Hollywood Freaking Out That Europe Might Make It Marginally Easier For People To Legally Access Content

Okay, we have some really serious concerns about the absolute mess of a draft copyright reform proposal that was leaked via EU regulators. The whole thing is basically a giant handout to legacy entertainment companies, pushing for things like taxing Google and other aggregators, and generally ignoring what‘s best for the public.

But apparently there‘s one single part of the plan that the entertainment guys don‘t like: the fact that a big part of the proposal is to knock out geoblocking, to create this „digital single market.“ To hear Hollywood whine about this, you‘d think it was the equivalent of forcibly making all their content available via BitTorrent.