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by mrtksn 2952 days ago
When you don't a competitor steps in and if the day comes that you want some EU sales, you will have to spend huge sums to establish your brand if you are not a huge brand that's on TV shows and the News all the time.

Geo-locked products are nothing new. I lived in a communist country, few EU countries and a middle eastern country and I can promise you that when a certain brand is not available a local competitor pops up and after the original brand becomes available it stays remain a curiosity unless it's a massive pop culture icon(McDonald's, CocaCola, Amazon, Netflix etc. - stuff that's on American TV shows all time. The TV Shows are also geo-locked but local pirates make them available few hours after the USA. Even in Cuba).

So, it's not a simple problem of if(profit < feel like worth it) then block EU.