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[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t think that’s a law. Some EU countries don’t have f1tv and some do.

[–] Bademantel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Of course you're right with that. Broadcasting and licensing is regulated by territorial copyright law. What I'm referring to is this:

Regulation (EU) 2017/1128 of the European Parliament

This Regulation introduces a common approach in the Union to the cross-border portability of online content services, by ensuring that subscribers to portable online content services which are lawfully provided in their Member State of residence can access and use those services when temporarily present in a Member State other than their Member State of residence.

I assume they are either not allowed or willing to track how temporary my stay in my home country is which means I can watch without VPN.

[–] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you have a subscription from another EU country then it must work in every other EU country even if subscriptions aren't offered in that country.

For example, I'm in Ireland and Sky has exclusive broadcast rights for F1 here. So what I did was i used a VPN to create an F1TV account in Portugal. Once the Portugeuse subscription is active it just works as normal in Ireland and I don't need a VPN any more for normal use.

I did this about 2 years ago and just set the Portuguese subscription to auto-renew annually and I haven't had to use a VPN at all in those two years.

If i go travelling outside the EU I use my own VPN server at home. By connecting to my home network via VPN, F1TV thinks I'm watching from my home network, which means i can watch F1TV from anywhere in the world.