Will Ireland block Apple TV+?
Yes, says Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin. Apple, she says, has to meet the new minimum of 30pc "European works" or the service will be blocked. Apple, like most of the big video on-demand platforms, isn't anywhere close to this quota. So it looks like we're heading for a showdown. This isn't Martin's idea - it's the transposition of an EU directive (the Audiovisual Media Services Directive), a wide-ranging, semi-protectionist law passed by European legislators in 2018. But as Apple bases its Apple TV+ service in Ireland (unlike Netflix, whose...
Source: independent.ie