{"id":173616,"date":"2016-07-27T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173616"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T09:47:58","slug":"eu-ruling-against-paramount-and-sky-may-end-geoblocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/173616-eu-ruling-against-paramount-and-sky-may-end-geoblocking.html","title":{"rendered":"EU ruling against Paramount and Sky may end geoblocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has accepted commitments from Paramount as legally binding under EU\u00a0anti-trust rules, which <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thestack.com\/cloud\/2016\/07\/26\/eu-paramountsky-ruling-may-end-geoblocking-within-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Stack reports<\/a><\/strong> could spell the end of geoblocking in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount required Sky UK to block access to its films outside the United Kingdom\u00a0and Ireland on its online pay-TV platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-16-2645_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">According to the commission<\/a><\/strong>, it was concerned that Paramount&#8217;s exclusive deal with Sky UK may hurt\u00a0cross-border competition between pay-TV broadcasters and partition the EU&#8217;s single market along national borders.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount has committed\u00a0not to include geoblocking clauses in future licensing deals with broadcasters in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>It has also committed not to take broadcasters to court where it has existing agreements in place that require geoblocking.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on geoblocking<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/163751-netflix-blocking-south-african-users-fine-well-go-back-to-piracy.html\"><strong>Netflix blocking South African users? Fine, we\u2019ll go back to piracy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/162592-this-is-how-netflix-is-cracking-down-on-unblockers-like-unotelly.html\"><strong>This is how Netflix is cracking down on unblockers like UnoTelly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153189-netflix-has-no-geoblocks-at-us-military-bases.html\"><strong>Netflix has no geoblocks at US military bases<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/136170-are-you-a-south-african-streaming-cybercriminal.html\"><strong>Are you a South African streaming cybercriminal?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount&#8217;s legally-binding commitment to the European Commission could mean the end of geoblocking in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":87669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,38268,36670],"class_list":["post-173616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173626,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173616\/revisions\/173626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}