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ophelia
Joined: 03 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: is korea anal about downloading? |
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| If I download a lot of movies and music, am I going to get hit by the downloading police? what's the deal here? |
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| Just don't download Korean stuff and I don't think they'll bother yah. |
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muggie2dammit
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Location: Ilsan, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: Re: is korea anal about downloading? |
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| ophelia wrote: |
| If I download a lot of movies and music, am I going to get hit by the downloading police? what's the deal here? |
They are lax in enforcing it.
If you're Korean, you can burn movies onto DVD and sell them outside police stations without being hassled. If you're not Korean, you'll probably be arrested and have to pay a fine (read bribe). If you copy a Korean movie, they may jail you. They've been making very nasty noises about copies of Korean products over the last couple of months, while copies of other country's products seem to be ignored.
Muggie2 the cynical |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:22 am Post subject: |
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Of course it is tolerated in Korea to download and even sell ripped of stuff from other countries. If you illegally download other stuff it will be no problem as it doesn't hurt Korea.
It's funny how Koreans are so vocal about claiming that other countries citizens are stealing their stuff and then half the tunes in their charts are blatant rip offs of western pop songs and movies.
Kim Black-Pot meet Lee Black Kettle. |
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SeoulFinn
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Location: 1h from Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: Re: not really |
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| ophelia wrote: |
| If I download a lot of movies and music, am I going to get hit by the downloading police? what's the deal here? |
I buy all of my Korean music from the stores, but the K-movies I download from the Internet or buy from Youngsan. Well, this might be asking for trouble, but so far I've watched around 130+ K-movies and cyber police hasn't bothered me. *knocks on wood* Around 30 of them are legit, though.
As for foreign movies and music, I don't think the Korean Police could care less if you download them... |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| downloading in korea is like eating KIMCHI! |
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