[Uvix]

Or they’ll just stop “selling” copies in those territories and only allow short-term rentals or monthly subscription services.

[mittensc]

They can try, they'll also lose out on money and have piracy to contend to.

Governments can still force them to sell same as rest of the world or have them pack their bags and leave.

[tialaramex]

One of the EU's backstop "Fuck Trump" options is to stop enforcing America's IP rights.

Maybe this USB stick full of MCU movies isn't the highest possible quality and two of the Thor movies are missing for some reason, however it cost less than €20, so who cares ? Oh it's illegal? Well my government said they don't give a shit about that until you get rid of the orange lunatic

In a world where American media companies are also trying to fuck over consumers that sort of action could probably get a rotting corpse re-elected in a landslide, that's one of the reasons it's on the backstop threat list - dry policy responses don't connect with voters, but "make as many copies of their stuff as you like" is incredibly popular.

[account42]

And then the government will give everyone free beer and a unicorn and everyone will live happily ever after.

[tialaramex]

Unlike imaginary animals, ceasing to enforce IP rights is less work rather than more.