Comment Neelie (Kroes)
Making speeches talk
[...] In these times of economic hardship the Commission opens the year of 2012 by launching this important initiative. It will boost growth in eCommerce, and remove barriers to the Digital Single Market.
We still need a true digital single market - services like Netflix and Apple's iTunes are still unavailable in Member States in Eastern Europe because of the licensing deals they have to make for every single country. European law is hurting the customers right now..
Prodan Statev, 11/01/2012 14:24
I agree, suppliers should not be able to offer different terms and conditions to people/organizations, based solely on their (EU) country of residence (unless legislation makes this impractical)
John Merrell, 11/01/2012 16:30
Suppliers should be able to offer any kind of different terms and conditions to people/organizations based on whatever they damnwell please. That's called free market.
Dutch Libertarian, 11/01/2012 16:54
@dutch libertarian: but currently they are often not able to offer these services across borders even if they want to. e.g. amazon can't sell me MP3 downloads in Belgium for rights reasons.
Jack Schickler, 11/01/2012 17:33
So what we need is less law not more. Basically it's something that amazon and the Belgium musical rights instutute/company/whatever have to negotiate!
Dutch Libertarian, 11/01/2012 18:36
