Andrus Ansip, the European Commission's Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, has admitted that EU copyright law is "pushing people to steal," because they seek out illegal copies of works that are not available to them legally because of the widespread use of geoblocking in Europe.
Ansip was interviewed as part of the music industry's annual Midem event (available as a video, found via TorrentFreak). He pointed to Spotify as an example of how people could be encouraged to pay for copyright material: "if somebody is able to provide services with better quality, with higher speed, people prefer to act as honest people; they are ready to pay, they don't want to steal.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...ople-to-steal/
I hope this changes current copyright and contract models for media. I think this is the worst problem in ebook publishing where most publishing contracts were by country so different publishers are selling in different markets. So books get released on different dates at different prices.