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One of the benefits of the USA no longer being an ally is we should be able to ignore all this sort of bullshit in the EU now.

Cory Doctorow was talking about it recently. https://youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0?si=OzjYwL16yLzQUwuY

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France has its own self important cultural industry to pressure the government. And then sometimes the President himself is married to a pop star.

In this specific case, it's not culture though, it's the sports diffusion rights mafia (LFP, beIN, Canal+).

Yes now that the EU is divorcing the US you can now stream soccer illegally! Oh wait… you guys are doing ISP-level censorship on your own

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/wireStory/spanish-soccer...

That article says that Cloudflare is fighting Spain about the censorship.

ISP-level censorship is extremely rare in the US. Copyright and piracy is almost always handled by domain seizure ordered by a court, not ISP-level blocking (as is common in the EU).

Eh? What has this got to do with the US? European based sports broadcast rights are an EU & UK issue entirely.

The truth is that the EU loves copyright and censorship just as much as the US does. The only difference is the branding and who pushes for it.

It is mostly US companies (Like Universal and Disney) pushing for copyright regulation in EU.

It's a simple narrative, one which increasingly looks like very convenient scapegoating as the cover is being blown with the ongoing divorce. It may be time to take a closer look at the other, more insidious, culprits. Europe has had its very own history of draconian business practices. Those empires haven't disappeared. Greed is greed everywhere.

The EU is perfectly capable of doing its bullshit all by itself. See 'chat control'.

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