EU voted to end Geo Blocking!!

[Nem]

DonFerrari said:

 

 

 

Nem said:

And why shouldn't it? Europe is a union. We have a single currency and we can freely buy things in one country or the one next door without any barriers. This barrier is therefore redundant and an unecessary obstacle and us, european consumers would benefit from it being teared down.

Btw, we are talking about europe, not the whole world. Thought i'd mention because you seem to have missed the beggining of the conversation and might be under the wrong impression. 

As I said before, your city is also a single one, still it's possible to go to 2 different stores of the same owner and see different prices... you know why? Because the cost to deliver the product in one place is different than the other and also the demand elasticity curve is different as well.

To mandate that companies practice a single price europe wide will make it that some places that got it lower will pay more and perhaps some places that paid more to pay less... there is very little reason to believe they would practice the lowest price available to all regions under new legislation.

I know it is talking exclusively about EU, ONU or any other supranational organization thank god still doesn't have supreme sovereign over the whole globe.

 

 

Well... yeah, that is why we are a union. That is the point. To have a unified single market. That market rivals the other big markets. You will still have choices if you so wish. It's not like every country is in the EU.

It's maybe difficult for you to see the advantages because you don't live in a landmass that has loads of small and mid sized countries where people can move freely between them. But to us, it is definitely beneficial. It's a quality of life improvement.