The European Union has proposed a ruling that would allow its citizens to take their copyrighted online content with them as they travel around member states. This will mean that you'll have access to your online subscriptions, accessing everything from your movies to sport and, yes, even iPlayer.
The BBC has announced its backing of the EU proposals, adding that the UK government's own proposals to modernise the BBC license fee should make it so the corporation is able to verify a license payer's iPlayer access abroad.
Netflix and chill?
The ruling is also likely to impact on Netflix too and is being designed so that a subscriber will no longer find themselves unable to access content available to them in their home country that is not on the service in another country when they travel.
Without resorting to VPNs...
Quite how that is going to impact upon Netflix's ability to license different content for different countries - yet still have it all accessible when a subscriber travels - we don't yet know. We've reached out to Netflix but have yet to get an official response.