The European Union has filed an anti-trust case against six major U.S. movie studios including Disney and Warner Bros. and a British satellite service for the restriction of their entertainment across the EU outside of the UK and Ireland:
I find it interesting (and suspicious) that they do this just as they bailed Greece out of their economic troubles. Looks like they're trying to make their money back to me and what better way to do that than to sue a popular United States movie studio? Or several, in this case.
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Last edited by Star428 on Jul 23rd, 2015 at 05:55 PM
Well why do they restrict their services? Don't they lose money by doing that?
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"Licensing agreements between the major film studios and Sky UK do not allow consumers in other EU countries to access Sky's UK and Irish pay-TV services, via satellite or online," Vestager said. "We believe that this may be in breach of EU competition rules."
It has nothing to do with the EU trying to finagle American companies because of Greece's financial troubles as the OP claimed.
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Most people believe Evolution not because they themselves are dumb, but cause they trust the "experts" who are feeding them evolutionary fast food, and so they don't bother questioning whether or not it's true.
In this day and age..yes people totally do. Facebook and Twitter are the worst thing to happen to criminals in the last few decades.
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That's a stretch of a connection. What they can get from the movie studios is a drop in the bucket next to a country, and it'd be an entirely different section that pursues this.
And the rules they're talking about sound like pre-existing ones the studios may have been in violation of.
You know how much money we'd have lost if we didn't bail Greece out?
Anyways, you'll see things like this happening more and more often in years to come. The EU needs to be smart and deal better with conglomerates if they want to build a stable economy. The absolute open market we had going on left us full of holes and bleeding money from everywhere.
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