Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
The idea that geoblocking could be used as a compliance tool is one part of the development of the relationship between geoblocking and legal compliance. This chapter outlines the three stages through which this development will proceed. In the first stage, geoblocking will be accepted as a tool of regulation and enforcement. While acceptance has already occurred in some countries in some contexts, this acceptance is certainly not yet general or widespread. In the second stage, minimum standards for geoblocking will be promulgated because the use of geoblocking for purposes of legal compliance necessarily calls for minimum technological standards that geoblocking tools must meet in order to create virtual borders sufficiently precise and impermeable to satisfy the law. In the third stage, circumvention of geoblocking and the tools that facilitate circumvention will be targeted by countries’ regulation. The three stages will likely begin at different times in different countries, industries, and contexts, but will eventually overlap and thereafter develop concurrently.
Publication Citation
Geoblocking, Technical Standards and the Law in GEOBLOCKING AND GLOBAL VIDEO CULTURE (Ramon Lobato & James Meese eds., 2016).
Recommended Citation
Trimble, Marketa, "Geoblocking, Technical Standards and the Law" (2016). Scholarly Works. 947.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/947