EU Passes 'Content Portability' Rules Banning Geofencing (torrentfreak.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: The European Parliament has passed draft rules mandating 'content portability', i.e. the ability to take your purchased content and services across borders within the EU. Freedom of movement rules, which allow EU citizens to live and work anywhere in the EU, require that the individual is able to take their life with them -- family, property, and services. Under the new rules, someone who pays for Netflix or BBC iPlayer and then moves to another EU country will retain access to those services and the same content they had previously. Separately, rules to prevent geofencing of content within the EU entirely are also moving forward.

Comments

Expect to see more content disappear

[SuperKendall]

Under this new rule anything you had access to must remain accessible in other countries...

The actual effect this will have though, is a lot of content is going to go away - because of the new rule content providers will demand more money for content and companies like Netflix will simply yank it rather than have to pay more to allow you to access it anywhere...

So instead of you getting your content everywhere, for most content this effects you will get it no-where.

At least for a while until contracts are re-negotiated.