The industry is stupid, as the best geobloking for a digital single market in Europe is the language, they only need transition to language license (basically licensing the original language + the local translation), after all the majority of people are only interested in the content in their own language. In this licensing scheme at most only remains a little conflict with some countries, but most are minor as for example Belgium, that speaks French and Dutch. The English can be the more problematic but thanks to the brexit this is mitigated.
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If I was Google I do the reverse, make then pay to be in google news selling it as a publicity service in a way that it nulls the tax.
The industry is stupid, as the best geobloking for a digital single market in Europe is the language, they only need transition to language license (basically licensing the original language + the local translation), after all the majority of people are only interested in the content in their own language. In this licensing scheme at most only remains a little conflict with some countries, but most are minor as for example Belgium, that speaks French and Dutch. The English can be the more problematic but thanks to the brexit this is mitigated.