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Korea Kicking People Offline With One Strike
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."
Wow, you must live in a pretty shitty place. I'm sorry to hear that. In the city I'm currently in, it's all the other stores which have the problems you describe. I don't think I've ever seen a Wal-Mart anywhere that comes close to that level of unprofessionalism.