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[hockeyguy109]

Just out of curiosity, what is the attitude towards illegally downloading music and movies off the internet in Korea? In America, nobody really cares or gets caught. Is it the same way in Korea or do they bust people?

[blurgalurgalurga]

so far, so good.

[harlowethrombey]

many bars you go to can fulfill your song requests because they're signed on to Limewire.

Selling bootleg DVDs on the street is technically illegal, too.

So is prostitution.

supposedly they're going to start cracking down on it more. supposedly we're going to build a colony on Mars, too.


go figure.

[Ukon]

[waynehead]

Downloading illegally back home, you have a, what?, 1/10,000 chance the recording industry and/or movie industry might be tracking you.

Here there's no chance. Have at it. I know I do. I used to go to Yongsan when I first got here to get movies and whatever...now I just download whatever I want whenever I want from isohunt or the pirate bay. Good times.

[coralreefer_1]

As I have always understood it, the record/motion picture industries are more concerned with those who are distributing music/movies more than the average pc user downloading.

If you have thousands of songs or hundreds of movies on your pc and are sharing that constantly I would imagine you are in more danger.

[Sector7G]

[Ukon]

Getting busted was exceedingly rare. ....they usually just sent letters to you and your ISP and hoped that would scare you away or scare the ISP into telling you not to download.

[ryoga013]

In Japan they can find you and convince the telecommunications company to deny you service or to sue the company for "aiding and abetting" but in Korea, it's the norm. Especially if it's a movie that isn't licensed by a Korean company, they could really care less. Think of it in terms of jaywalking....

[moosehead]

hey gotta make good on those internet fees I'm payin'

must be some reason K likes to have such fast downloading speeds - figured they were just encouraging us folks to take advantage so why not?

[Gimpokid]

Confuscious said it was immoral to pay for any online content. Koreans adhere to this. I actually heard that's why WoW is free to download here and only playable by slightly more expensive prepay cards because buying software and then paying a monthly fee is so objectionable to Koreans that they would just find a way to steal it or not play at all.

Anyway yeah it's a crime, but so is seeing a wee wee or cooter on yur computer and everybody does it anyway. I wouldn't worry too much.

[Sector7G]