They don’t have an inherent right to exist or be profitable. If the EU agrees this violates GDPR then they will have to adapt or die.
Or maybe more likely, consume content from unfriendly countries who will simply ignore the regulation, and force a continuous game of whack a mole with their domains.
If Europe takes this stance, those competitors could also be allowed to mirror the content from foreign, non-GDPR-compliant companies, effectively giving them the best of both worlds?
Where would this domestic competitor even get the content from? Steal it from YouTube/TikTok?
But maybe the website can just (in combination with a universal micropayments system) charge a reasonable fee and that people will just pay it?
> Steal it from YouTube/TikTok?
That's another hypothesis. The EU could just rule that it's legal to copy content provided for free and then legally "steal" it from other platforms?
Why wouldn't those ads be blocked? And they cannot take countermeasures if they were held as illegal in this case. Not sure how that's an alternative.
>That's another hypothesis. The EU could just rule that it's legal to copy content provided for free and then legally "steal" it from other platforms?
Won't that kill EU content creators more than other ones, because non-English EU based content is mostly created and consumed within the EU.