“DMA is here to stay and will be quickly mirrored in a number of countries. The flexibility that Big Tech had will be constrained, as the regulatory ‘straitjacket’ will get tighter globally,” said Ioannis Kokkoris, competition law professor at Queen Mary University in London.
After years of vainly chasing the infringements of multinationals in endless legal proceedings, Brussels wants to act upstream, by imposing some twenty rules to be respected on pain of dissuasive fines.
“I think the DMA indirectly places a premium on business models based on subscriptions or device level monetisation.
“The DMA is not a perfectly formed panacea from the start, and without doubt, gatekeepers will try to navigate around it.