Originally Posted by craggers82  It is about time the EC looks at this. There is high demand for cross border satellite pay-tv subscriptions and I hope broadcasters will accept that copyright monopoly is bad for competition. I bet out of area subscribers have complained about their unfair agreements to only broadcast within the country and I am glad the EC is looking into an open free market of satellite pay-TV. |
Copyright monopoly is fine, no company providing content wants to see its efforts stolen from under their eyes.
The problem arises when a broadcaster becomes a content provider, and has joined forces with similar to carve up the territories. The regional profit gained is then far more than the content is actually worth, leaving the cross border subscriber with a feeling of a valueless service.