Hello dreamers.
There's a reason you pronounce it like ewww. Not just because we hate Europeans. It's because they keep passing dumb as hell laws that confuse everybody and, time to time, cripple modern commerce for everyone except the largest supercorporations.
A! YEAR! AGO! the EU quietly passed a law and didn't tell anyone about it until it came into force earlier this month (Dec 13). It's called the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR).
The actual law itself only clearly applies to shipping physical goods to the EU (including software sold physically such as a console video game), and imposes all these requirements in the name of consumer safety and quality control. However, the European Commission has made several ambiguous statements that imply the GPSR somehow also applies to fully-digital goods sold to EU customers (e.g. Steam games), even though that makes no fucking sense because the requirements are about stuff like labeling packages and testing for foreseeable use cases. Y'know, things that only make sense for physical products. And also you have to have a physical office in the EU with a "responsible person" who all the consumer complaints are sent to.
Nobody knows what's going on and everyone is basically pestering the EU to clarify if this law applies to completely digital goods or not. And they just kinda won't do that.
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22 Dec 2024 17:40 CET
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