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by julesie 2850 days ago
But the size of EU member states varies drastically. Germany is home to 83,000,000 people, Malta just over 440,000.

Is the EU suggesting that Malta's population should only be able to stream content 2x the volume of its domestic content output? And that's assuming the likes of Netflix was able to hoover up all of that domestic output which seems untenable.
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seszett 2850 days ago
For reference, IMDB shows 297 movies from Malta, and Netflix' catalogue in Malta offers 716 movies.

So even assuming the current catalogue is completely devoid of Maltese movies, there is still some margin available to fulfil the strictest requirements. Although I think the actual requirements is to include 30% movies from the EU.

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wutbrodo 2850 days ago
I don't think your interpretation of the requirements is correct. From upthread:

> The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%)

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wukerplank 2850 days ago
Yes, and my guess is that Malta will implement the law differently from what the EU proposes.

[Edited to fix typo.]

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