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by mattmanser
3745 days ago
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The EU were looking at abolishing this as against free trade, much like they are waging war on roaming charges within the EU. They were talking about it a year or two ago, not sure what has happened since then as different countries in the EU have different censorship so it's not that simple (e.g. games in Germany are usually less gore). This is the only thing I can find about it, but I'm sure it was reported on here on better known sources: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2015/03/30/european-commission-l... |
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What does the Commission plan to do about geo-blocking?
Addressing unjustified geo-blocking will give more choice of products and services for consumers at lower prices. The Commission is planning to make legislative proposals in the first half of 2016 to end unjustified geo-blocking. Action could include a targeted change to the e-commerce framework, and to the framework set out by Article 20 of the Services Directive (on non-discrimination of recipients of services). As a result, traders will have only limited possibilities to deny access to online services.In parallel to legislative proposals, the Commission today launched a Competition Sector Inquiry to analyse the application of competition law in this area (press release and factsheet)
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-15-4920_en.htm
There's lots to this behind that link, and at the digital single market site (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en) but it seems like some DSM legislation will be proposed later this year, but not all of it (since the eCommerce report isn't scheduled to be completed until 2017)