The European Commission’s antitrust body on Thursday filed charges against six major U.S. film studios and Sky UK , alleging they break EU law by restricting consumers’ access to pay-TV services. The U.S. companies slapped with the Statement of Objections are Disney , NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Sony , Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. . The Competition Commission alleges that the six U.S. studios and Sky that the studios and Sky put restrictions in place that prevent consumers in the whole of the EU from accessing pay-TV services available in the U.K. and Ireland. “European consumers want to watch the pay-TV channels of their choice regardless of where they live or travel in the EU. Our investigation shows that they cannot do this today,” Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, in a statement.
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