E.U. Agrees to Cross-Border Access to Streaming Services
Reporting, investigating, coming up with a solution, creating the appropriate law, and enforcing it is a lengthy and costly process.<p>I hope non-contributors to the EU project are not going to leach on the effort and money the EU members are putting on this. The UK is taking with it, via &quot;Great Repeal Bill&quot;, all these laws (with some to be ditched in the future, at their discretion). We need to ensure that:<p>* the UK has properly contributed to the costs of creating the legislation body: any pending bills must be claimed<p>* the UK is not leaching on the EU, by enjoying the benefits of these laws without contributing to the recurring enforcement costs.<p>It seems the UK is going for a a Hard Brexit, and they will (I assume) want to opt-in in several beneficial schemes. In this case, a &quot;Cross-Border Access to Streaming Services&quot; yearly bill, amount to be negotiated, must be levied on the UK.<p>It is not clear that the EU should have any interest in dealing on this kind of detail with one of our partners, when we are doing this in bulk within the EU. The more sensible outcome, from the EU point of view, is that the UK is excluded from this scheme, otherwise the administrative burden would blow out of proportion.<p>There is a reason the EU is a thing.