Korean Job Discussion Forums

[zmase]

I know the country is extremely wired...and this question may be a little controversial but...

Hypothetically, could one download torrents/items off of rapidshare/megaupload/etc (such as music) and be safe in Korea (as in the US?)

I lived in Germany for a year and had no problem. Seems like there are less problems abroad (piratebay...etc)

[IanChops]

It's no problem. This is the best place for it.

[ChinaBoy]

No, the technology forum is the best place for it.

[crossmr]

That has nothing to do with web neutrality...
the more common term net neutrality has to do with ISPs wanting to charge extra money to some websites to deliver their content faster and before other's content.

So small websites would be unable to compete with larger ones, meaning they'd get less visitors and eventually die.

[blackjack]

Since February in utorrent

down 2.25 TB
up 3.6 TB

currently downloading at 988 kB/sec uploading at 2.2 MB/sec

[Goku]

Downloading copyrighted material in most countries is still considered illegal. If you download "Harry Potter 3" (I'm assuming that's what you're downloading) you still infrige copyright laws given that country is within trade agreement with said country of the copyrighted product.

However, in terms of actual enforcement...

I don't think walker texas ranger is going to come busting down my door when I return to America for downloading "Yanni's musical new age hippie fest" while i was in Korea. Tracing an IP back to my villa and then identifying me is probably way more work than any company/government angency would like to do.

They would have to first identify me as an American over a Korean. Consider all the people downloading "Yani's new age hippie fest". Downloading it in Korea would make anyone tracking it assume, it's an expat or a Korean. By IP alone there would be no way to distinguish.

So at that point they would have to trace IP, call up the Korean company. Now, the company knows trying to catch Koreans downloading their "Yanni fest" is futile. Asking another country to enforce your copyright when you have no leverage for them to do so makes it a waste of time and effort for the company. Calling some guy in Korea to suddenly arrest a whole bunch of people is going to be hard to pull. I haven't heard of this ever happening.

But let's assume they bother finding out all the Koreans downloading their movies and then flesh out the expat... and they find that you are an expat downloading movies in Korea. They have your name and ARC number attached to your IP when you registered to have cable in your house.

Now the company has to take your ARC number, go back to the immigration office, and pull up your records. After they pull up your records they then would have your home address and passport number.

That's a lot of work considering they can't even bust people in their own country.

[Real Reality]

'Upload a Song, Lose Your Internet Connection'
By Kim Tong-hyung, Korea Times (April 5, 2009)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/04/133_42594.html

South Korea passes three-strikes internet piracy law
IP World (April 15, 2009)
http://www.ipworld.com/ipwo/doc/view.htm?id=217097&searchCode=H

Korean Association of Phonogram Producers (한국음원제작자협회)
http://www.kapp.or.kr/eng/trust/introduction.asp

Korea stops music file-sharing
PC PRO (June 12, 2006)
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/88386/korea-stops-music-filesharing.html

Google Korea Head Blasts Real-Name Requirement
By Kim Tong-hyung, Korea Times (April 22, 2009)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_43663.html

[crossmr]

You should change your name to google.

[Real Reality]