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• 2016-02-08T14:54:00+00:00 •
Interesting story appeared today over at the Open Rights Group site:-
www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/take-your-digital-media-abroad
At the moment, if you travel abroad you often can't access digital media that you've paid for here in the UK. The European Commission is proposing draft legislation that would let people who have paid for digital media in their country of residence watch that media while they're temporarily in another EU country.
In other words, if you purchase or rent TV, films, games, sports broadcasts, music, and e-books in the UK, you'd be able to watch them while your abroad elsewhere in the EU. Currently, if I rent an online movie in Dover, just before I hop on the train, chances are I could not watch it 30km away with my internet connection in Calais. How daft is that?
IMO it is another example of our politicians being way behind the times:-
1. This should have been sorted 10 years ago. Clearly our government(s) have no idea - which is why did we had to wait until the EU commission suggested it!
2. Anyone with a smattering of tech savvy has been able to work round such IP-address-related restrictions anyway - and not just within the EU either.
Nevertheless, I think it is a move in the right direction. What do you think?
www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/take-your-digital-media-abroad
At the moment, if you travel abroad you often can't access digital media that you've paid for here in the UK. The European Commission is proposing draft legislation that would let people who have paid for digital media in their country of residence watch that media while they're temporarily in another EU country.
In other words, if you purchase or rent TV, films, games, sports broadcasts, music, and e-books in the UK, you'd be able to watch them while your abroad elsewhere in the EU. Currently, if I rent an online movie in Dover, just before I hop on the train, chances are I could not watch it 30km away with my internet connection in Calais. How daft is that?
IMO it is another example of our politicians being way behind the times:-
1. This should have been sorted 10 years ago. Clearly our government(s) have no idea - which is why did we had to wait until the EU commission suggested it!
2. Anyone with a smattering of tech savvy has been able to work round such IP-address-related restrictions anyway - and not just within the EU either.
Nevertheless, I think it is a move in the right direction. What do you think?
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