Android Police: EU residents now have access to the same online content anywhere in the EU as they do back home, but that's not necessarily a good thing

Monday, April 2, 2018

EU residents now have access to the same online content anywhere in the EU as they do back home, but that's not necessarily a good thing

Anyone who's traveled to another country knows how frustrating it is to be geoblocked from streaming content that's available back at home. Due to licensing restrictions, content providers like Netflix aren't always able to provide the same viewing experience across different countries, and so some countries get access to a worse content library than others. Hypothetically, this shouldn't happen within the European Common Market (to which the European Union belongs), which seeks to "guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and labour," but in reality there's always some gap between theory and practice.

EU residents now have access to the same online content anywhere in the EU as they do back home, but that's not necessarily a good thing was written by the awesome team at Android Police.