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  Don Speekingleesh

  1 year ago

  What the EU want is a single market, not a single marketplace.
  They want anyone in an EU country to have the same opportunity to to buy whatever at the same price as anyone in a different EU country.
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  Krist

  1 year ago

  Currently the "genuine differences" between the markets for music in different countries mean amongst other things that I can't buy music in my native language from the iTunes store because I'm no longer living in my native country.
  
  
  These "genuine differences" mean that Amazon music downloads aren't even available in many countries, and probably never will. Many markets are just to small to be of value for online sellers.
  
  
  
  Neelie Kroes wants to change that, not by creating a single provider of music downloads for Europe, as you mistakingly assume from her statement.
  You have misunderstood what Neelie Kroes meant when she mentioned a "single market".
  
  
  
  Kroes doesn't want a monopoly, quite on the contrary. Kroes wants the same rules for selling music apply across the EU, so that a online music store in the UK can offer its songs to consumers all over the EU without complications. She wants it to be possible for a consumer in Denmark to buy songs in the UK iTunes store. She wants smaller markets to be served by Amazon too, and wants to achieve this not by forcing Amazon to enter these markets, but by making it easier for Amazon to serve these markets by unifying them.
  
  
  The US is a single market for Music. The EU isn't but must become one.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  bradencox

  1 year ago

  Krist and Tom, Cord's main point is that Amazon's pricing is a reaction to market differences caused by Government (ie. copyright law). So why is Government, as the source of the problem, unfairly displacing blame onto industry?
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