Comments on: South Korean Police Help Young File-Sharers

By: Eloh

Eloh — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:36:34 +0000

Well, if they are committing crimes to get money, they obviously didn’t have the money in the first place to buy the “copyrighted” material.

By: South Korea’s “Three-Strikes” Law Takes Effect

South Korea’s “Three-Strikes” Law Takes Effect — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:28:44 +0000

[...] until this past February South Korean police actually worked to help young file-sharers avoid hefty settlement fines by recommending summary trials to address charges of copyright infringement. Police wanted to use [...]

By: open_universe

open_universe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You guys fail to see the big picture for South Korea. South Koreans enjoy what is without a doubt the best Internet connectivity on the planet. We’re talking Gigabyte speeds. South Koreans are FREAKS when it comes to adopting high tech hell the whole country acts like it’s full of high-tech-loving geeks and nerds. You better believe someone on high gave the word that the cops shouldn’t treat these P2Pers like hardened criminals. South Korea couldn’t give a FUCK about anyone’s copyright laws they want to stay at the forefront of high-tech at any or anyone’s cost. Stifling any Internet activity would go counter to that desire. THAT is what’s driving this.