I know that there is a cost attached, even though, from an argumentative stand point I sometimes want to wish it away...
That is where transfer payments between the publically fincanced broadcasters come in. Make one big nice platform where every EUropean can watch all the non-third-party content and then distribute part of the public broadcasting revenue to those broadcasters whose content was watched by users in other countries.
I know this is not realistic, but from my point of view it looks as if the only reason we don't have something like this is that the people in the right places just don't care.
That is where transfer payments between the publically fincanced broadcasters come in. Make one big nice platform where every EUropean can watch all the non-third-party content and then distribute part of the public broadcasting revenue to those broadcasters whose content was watched by users in other countries.
I know this is not realistic, but from my point of view it looks as if the only reason we don't have something like this is that the people in the right places just don't care.