In reply to Ryan Hellyer.

There are still some differences (don't ask, I don't know them in detail), BUT: the EU government (commission) is about to unify all this in the future.

So if you take our German laws (I am from here), you have good idea of where all this is heading to in the not so distant future.

They've already unified some restrictions for shop owners which took effect on June 13rd this year, as of January 1st 2015 similar unifying in the area of VAT for digital product shopping within EU.

Only a few examples.

The whole area of (digital) privacy laws is expected to be "unifyed" as next.

I do not welcome a lot of these laws, however, sometimes they could be an advantage sometimes for a user to really help protect user rights. Sadly, often they only increase time and cost for administration which is bad of course - and decreases power of startups and entrepeneurs for example.

It's a wide field. My hope is that companies like behind Stream plugin will take advantage of these realities and offer services that fit better to businesses and companies in other parts of the world.