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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone had a cease and desist notice? Happening alot in America these days... |
I believe it. That's been an ongoing news story for years.
But here, if there were actions, surely we would hear about it. What little mention I've heard was about downloading games, more than a year ago.
If Korea really wanted to stop downloading torrents, surely they could. They don't because it reduces the outflow of money from the country. Downloading Korean copyrighted material would be another matter.
For a foreign teacher here temporarily, I think the risk is minimal. But if you are married to a Korean, I would be more cautious. You have more at stake.
But I have seen plenty of English speaking Korean teachers with downloaded movies. The ethics teacher had a portable hard drive full of them.
When I suggest buying an actual DVD of a movie, most Koreans look at me like I'm nuts. They just download them. |
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Englishee
Joined: 21 Jan 2010
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| for the first 3 months i left my computer on 24/7 downloading at over 2mb/s on average for hours at a time. i downloaded over 2TB of movies during my rampage from teh asia pacific. if the government didnt figure out something was wrong, then they wont, or they just dont care because they have better things to do, like try to teach people to walk on the "right" ride of the sidewalk... |
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Englishee
Joined: 21 Jan 2010
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just an additional note:
when i was in Canada, i read an article saying that the RCMP (Federal Police) didn't give a crap about people dowloading movies and music, so long as they were not selling it.
the only problems i had at home was having rogers limit my bandwidth to about 90gb a month. |
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