EU Stops Geo-Blocking by Studios, NBCUniversal
Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony and AT&T's Warner Bros. no longer can try to block EU consumers outside of Britain and Ireland from accessing films by satellite or online, under an antitrust agreement the European Commission announced Thursday with the studios and…
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Sky TV. The EC said it told studios in 2015 that geo-blocking requirements in contracts with Sky TV seem to breach EU antitrust laws by eliminating cross-border competition between pay-TV providers.