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What sucks is how the US will pressure the rest of the world to also implement this garbage.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/downloading-and-uploading_what-...

I am going to cancel my Netflix and start pirating because am not going to pay more than Germans for netflix and get an even smaller catalog than they get. Germany already pays more than the US for a much smaller catalog. We just get take to the cleaner just because, no reason whatsoever. The law that would require Netflix to pay a percentage to subsidice Swiss movies hasn't even been voted on yet and if it does pass will push the price even higher.

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The EU changed their copyright directive a few years ago to mandate "best practices" as a condition for online safe harbor; I find that provision to be equivalent to the SMART Act.

As for paying more for less in Germany... the problem is that nobody in the TV industry wants to go to sim-ship[0]. Most countries want to have a local-market/local-language TV broadcast and production industry, which is only viable if you let people portion off rights to their work on a country-by-country basis. The subsidy laws you mentioned are part and parcel of the same thing.

[0] A game development term that is short for "simultaneous ship"; in which you ship all languages in every territory all on the same day.

What? Europe absolutely does not need to get pressured to implement restrictive copyright laws. If anything, they are pioneers in the field. The european copyright filters laws of 2018 were even more insane[0]. And in general, IP right holders have a lot more power in the EU than in the US, where the DMCA provides quite a lot of protection relatively speaking.

[0] I have not heard a lot about the copyright filters since 2018 though. I know the controversial copyright directive has been ratified and implemented, but I don't know if it led to any concrete change up until now.

But who will even need Better Call Saul when you'll be able to watch local exclusives, like Swiss Prince.

I can watch Tschugger for free on playsuisse paid for by my tax dollars.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15425948/

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