LOL Trump wanted to keep this "trade war" to goods only. He never mentioned the surplus US has in services trade. This will really hurt US below the belt.
As an American, I'm here for it, go EU go! Make it hurt!
Seconded
If this raises prices of Netflix, Gamepass, ... I will immediately cancel them rather than pay the hike.
Highly recommend replacing those with a Usenet subscription!
At this point I'm quickly getting to the "...rebellion becomes duty" phase on this issue. Everything is getting so unreasonable.
I'm also just worried about getting served because I forgot to turn on an obfuscation service or something lol...
Downloading content is mostly legal around the world. Uploading content is illegal pretty much everywhere.
Usenet just downloads so it’s not as illegal. For torrenting you need a VPN
Usenet isn't as easy to get caught using as torrents just because of how it works. I don't know enough to explain why, I just know this haha.
I was today's years old (and that is a lot) when I found out Usenet is still alive and can be used to get... Hmmm... Entertainment. Where should I start if I want to get rid of Netflix?
Do it!
No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.
Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.
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