EU Paramount/Sky ruling may end geoblocking within Europe

Re:EU Paramount/Sky ruling may end geoblocking within Europe by jamesbrownuhh on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @09:10AM (#12165316)

"It may be no coincidence that in the last two weeks Paramount has struck a deal with Netflix to stream new episodes of the much-awaited 2017 Star Trek reboot globally within 24 hours of network broadcast."

Er, it certainly would be a coincidence, since the EU investigation began some time before the Star Trek reboot was even conceived, and additionally since no such distribution deal between Paramount and Netflix exists, since Star Trek in its TV form is a CBS property.

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Re:EU Paramount/Sky ruling may end geoblocking within Europe by DasIch on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @10:31AM (#12165853)

As part of the push towards a digital single market the EU has looked at geoblocking for a while. It will probably still take a while for geoblocking (in the EU) to end but it's only a question of when and not if. I don't think it's too far fetched to assume that some companies are already accepting that instead of fighting against it.

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Re:EU Paramount/Sky ruling may end geoblocking within Europe by icebraining on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @09:26AM (#12165410)

additionally since no such distribution deal between Paramount and Netflix exists, since Star Trek in its TV form is a CBS property.

They seem to be confusing Paramount Pictures (the studio in question) with Paramount Television (which was absorbed by CBS).

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Re:EU Paramount/Sky ruling may end geoblocking within Europe by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:32PM (#12167304)

They are probably actually confusing Paramount Television (which was a name retained by CBS after the CBS/Viacom split through 2009, when the unit was renamed CBS Television Studios) with Paramount Television (the unit of Paramount Pictures, which resurrected the unit name in 2014 or so.)

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