On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:03:13 +1100, john james wrote:

news.individual.net did in fact decide not to bother to accept
subscribers who were not in Germany because of the new tax arrangements
that came in at the start of this year.

Which is actually due to the German tax authorities choosing to make life
very difficult for German companies, compared to the way HMRC have chosen
to implement it.

https://www.gov.uk/vat-on-digital-services-in-the-eu