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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by crsmithdev on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:45PM (#19087547)
I wonder if at some point it will just make good business sense not to offer your service / product in the EU? I imagine the cost of developing and running software to comply (plus the fines for anything but perfect compliance) would exceed potential revenue from EU customers in many cases.
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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by jandrese on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:50PM (#19087619)
Depends on your service. Something like Wechat could pretty easily decide to just not service the EU. It would be a much tougher choice for someone like Google or Amazon.
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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by Cynddl on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:47PM (#19087579)
Do you mean as someone not living in the EU? More than 500M people live there and their primary market, when offering a service or a product, is indeed the European market.
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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by crsmithdev on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:03PM (#19087780)
Yes. Of course, if you are living in the EU, you are stuck with that market :)
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