Korea Kicking People Offline With One Strike 176
An anonymous reader writes "While there's lots of talk of 'three strikes' laws in places like France, it may be worth looking over at South Korea, which put in place a strict new copyright law, required by a 'free trade' agreement with the US (which was the basis for ACTA). It went into effect in the middle of 2009, and now there's some data about how the program is going. What's most troubling is that the Copyright Commission appears to be using its powers to 'recommend' ISPs suspend user accounts based on just one strike, with no notice and no warning. The system lets the Commission make recommendations, but in well over 99% of the cases, the ISPs follow the recommendations, and they've never refused to suspend a user's account."
Darn (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ACTA again (Score:2, Funny)
Dear USA Consumer,
If you had not shopped at Walmart, big box and huge brand retailers and insisted on cheap vats of everything, you wouldn't have driven all the businesses that tried to keep manufacturing jobs in the US out of business or into the hands of private equity firms (who promptly shipped the jobs to China and India).
Don't blame the corporate leaders. In most cases, they are responding to the absolute force of market pressure. The death of independent retail has sharpened market pressures to the point that manufacturers can comply with the demands of retailers or go out of business. And retailers demand what consumers demand: cheapness at all costs.
It's disgusting. Most people in this country just want to buy the cheapest of everything. I would never eat food from a Costco or Walmart knowing what their buying practices are like.
Re:Online gaming (Score:4, Funny)
Keep trying Mr.Bush, you'll get it one day!