{"id":45756,"date":"2024-11-13T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45756"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:28:09","slug":"questioning-eu-geo-blocking-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/13\/questioning-eu-geo-blocking-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning EU Geo-Blocking Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/11\/12\/apple-pressure-to-remove-eu-geo-blocking\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/11\/12\/apple-pressure-to-remove-eu-geo-blocking\/\">\n<p>The European Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_24_5727\">today announced<\/a> that it has formally notified Apple regarding potential breaches of the EU's anti-geo-blocking rules.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>According to the CPC Network, consumers using Apple Media Services, such as the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV+, encounter different interfaces and content depending on their country of registration. This regional segmentation allegedly makes it difficult, if not impossible, for users to switch between country-specific versions of Apple's services, which may be in violation of the EU's Geo-blocking Regulation enacted in 2018, designed to protect the Digital Single Market.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The EU maintains that consumers should be able to access and download apps offered in other EU\/EEA countries when traveling or staying temporarily in another member state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/113471168374034536\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/31\/ios-apple-intelligence-in-eu-in-april-2025\/\">iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/25\/testing-eu-ios-features-in-ios-18-2\/\">Testing EU iOS Features in iOS 18.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/eu-ios-envy\/\">EU iOS Envy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/21\/no-apple-intelligence-or-iphone-mirroring-in-eu-at-launch\/\">No Apple Intelligence or iPhone Mirroring in EU at Launch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/app-marketplaces-will-stop-working-if-you-travel-outside-the-eu\/\">App Marketplaces Will Stop Working If You Travel Outside the EU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton: The European Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, today announced that it has formally notified Apple regarding potential breaches of the EU's anti-geo-blocking rules. [&#8230;] According to the CPC Network, consumers using Apple Media Services, such as the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV+, encounter different interfaces and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-13T21:28:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"2365dc57-bcbe-494d-803a-6c6c7935e37b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-13T21:28:12Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AI2XcV7y-SU2AOmxseTXjew","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,1789,2570,1927,432,31,2586,189,209,30,39,2598],"class_list":["post-45756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple-tv-plus","tag-digital-markets-act-dma","tag-european-union","tag-gps","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-itunesstore","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-15-sequoia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45757,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions\/45757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}