EU voted to end Geo Blocking!!

[DonFerrari]

setsunatenshi said:

DonFerrari said:

You are the one not understanding... even if the whole globe were to be considered a single market without any barrier, tax, etc the interest of several different places are different.

Every single product have a market and people interested in it. So when someone releases a product at some place he may make it direct to it, that is a prerogative of who creates a product.

Everyone eats, still each one have different tastes and products one wants to eat. So one selling to the whole world won't try to sell horse meat on Brazil, pork meat to jews or cow to Indians.

I have a problem with government intervention, as they may all seem like customer friendly, good intended, etc... but freedom of trade is better than government imposition. So if you want Amazon per say to sell at the same price to all EU markets you and others can request Amazon to do it, when you demand the government to do, the end result more often than not won't be exactly you had in mind.

Let's break this down:

 

1- The EU is a single market. There's no hypothetical here of considering the whole world or whatever. As a EU citizens we have certain rights and obligations. Companies also have certain rights and obligations if they want to operate in the EU. As such, if the EU determines this Geo blocking within EU countries is unlawful, the companies must abide by it, period.

2- No one is saying where any company must sell their product, if they want to open a shop in Germany but not in France, that's their business. What they can't do is discriminate a consumer just because he's from a different EU country.

3- Your problem with government intervention is irrelevant to the discussion. The fact is we live in a society with laws, and the laws are made by the governments that are elected by the people. Feel free to use your vote and political speech to influence the types of laws that are passed, but there's no way a government will stop existing to create and enforce said laws.

4- Finally your example is completely flawed. If amazon.de wants to sell a product cheaper than amazon.fr, they are perfectly free to do so. What they can't do is block a French person from buying said product from their German store.

 

Hope it's a bit more clear now

1 - Sure, have I said the rule is illegal or that the companies that don't abide are doing so under the law. I just said that the government (or supragovernment shouldn't intefere on this) and that even considering smaller markets there are still geographical differences, because there is and it have nothing to do with law.

2 - If you open one in France and one in Germany and have different price that isn't discrimination them?

3 - If you are so willing to bend over and accept that government intervention shall have no boundaries all the power to you. Which still, until they approve a law prohibiting me to say it, take out my right to consider it unneeded and with more than often negative impact.

4 - Not flawed. If you demand that anyone within EU can buy from any online store, then the very existence of national sites becomes irrelevant.