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Korean Brothers Arrested For File-Sharing Site
HarlanC writes: "This story discusses the arrest of two Korean brothers who run a website [warning, page requires Korean language support] that allows peer-to-peer file sharing. Note that the Recording Industry Association of Korea reports local companies lost $154 million in sales in 2000 due to use of the program, even though sales increased to $31.5 million in total sales in 2000 from $29.2 million in 1999."
Is this because of the pirates?
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Well, at least it's good that Free Korea is trying to learn something from the US right?
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God damn it. Yet another Korea-centric article. When are the Slashdot editors going to realize there's more to the world than just Korea?
One time while portscanning for port 80 (out of boredom, not for any malicious purpose) on my former dorm's subnet I came across a directory that the individual probably didn't want to have shared: the one containing the history file for his browser.
His webpage portrayed him as a nice, churchgoing young man. But some of those URLs would suggest otherwise...
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Stop this already! File sharing should not be illegal! At least not the technology allowing it! File sharing is SO MUCH MORE than just porn and copyrighted mp3s!
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"Soribada is probably affecting our business, but there is no concrete evidence," said Cho Jin-bae, who handles online marketing at the Seoul office of the EMI record label. For an industry that claims to be losing to piracy 5 times more money than it takes in, all from one source, the lack of concrete evidence suprises me. Or maybe the South Korean RIAA wannabees are even more mathematically challenged than their American counterparts. Frankly, I'm suprised they can crank in $30 million or so a year, what with 2 college kids in their way.
South Korea. Read the article, numbnuts.
Quoted from the article:
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"We wanted South Korea to have its own Napster."
Sorry buddy, You need a sexy logo like Napster's first
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A drunk walks into a bar and says to the bartender (with a drunken slur), "bartender, buy everyone in the house a drink, pour yourself one, and give me the bill."
So, the bartender does just that and hands the man a bill for $37.00.
The drunk says, "I haven't got it."
The bartender slaps the guy around a few times then threw him out into the street.
The very next day the same drunk walks into the bar and once again says (with a drunken slur), "Bartender, buy everyone in the house a drink, pour yourself one, and give me the bill."
The bartender looks at the guy and figures to himself that he can't possibly be stupid enough to pull the same trick twice, so he gives him the benefit of the doubt, pours a round of drinks for the house, has a drink himself and hands the drunk a bill for $37.00.
The drunk says, "I haven't got it." The bartender can't believe it, so he picks the guy up, beats the living day lights out of him, then thows him out into the street.
The next day the same drunk walks back into the same bar and says (with a drunken slur), "bartender, buy every one in the house a drink, give me the bill." In disgust the bartender says, "what, no drink for me this time?"
The drunk replies, "No, you get violent when you drink."
You're forgetting the movies.
;)
And the occasional app or game.
And sometimes people's cookies.txt. (I found one with Amazon one-click shopping once!
Hey, I think we might be able to make a case for the legality of downloading someone else's cookies.txt! Score one for p2p!
But if our IQs were higher, would Slashdot exist?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Good thing it's the Free Korea, as opposed to that evil stalinist state up to the north where they trump up charges and haul people off to the gulag.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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cognitivedissonance = on
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Can you imagine if the DMCA was around or the RIAA was around a decade ago?
News FLASH
AP Wire
Today, the RIAA and MPAA sued the Defense Department for violating the DMCA, charging that this new "Internet" constitutes an illegal circumvention device. Said a head lawyer for the RIAA "This internet will be a haven for criminals and piracy, causing the US economy to plumit. It must be stopped now."
How many future possibilities do we kill with every shutdown of a new information sharing system?