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They're removing all presence they have in France, their servers mostly.

They want to be out of reach of French courts basically.

Do you think they will geoblock in addition to physically leaving?

Probably. They will want to do everything possible to be able to prove that they took all measures at their disposal to stop serving the French market on top of taking all measures to have their business operations be outside of French jurisdiction.

Then Sony (or whoever) will simply use a VPN to bypass the block...

Though I guess if they stop operating in France entirely, there will simply be nothing left to sue, even if the company still exists elsewhere.

Unfortunately France is also a Lugano signatory, so we'll have to eventually prevail in France as well as Germany, and that will be a long and expensive project.

beIN, not Sony.

beIN also sued the VPNs

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