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South Korea slaps ₩435M fine on Twitch for suspending service

by lehi on 2/24/24, 12:34 AM with 5 comments

  • by washadjeffmad on 2/24/24, 5:39 PM

    Shaking down Twitch/Amazon earlier via their "pay to play" cost on ingress traffic backfired, so they're just establishing a price on access to SK citizens.

    At least it's not regulatory capture, right?

  • by c0balt on 2/24/24, 3:46 PM

    > The KCC also imposed another fine of 15 million won on Twitch for its failure to implement a system to prevent the distribution of illegal footage.

    That's an interesting point. I wonder how much processing would be required to get something similar to YouTub's Content ID system for twitch.

    YouTube has it at least somewhat working for their livestreams but that surely wasn't easy given their scale and the latency requirements for livestreams.

  • by justinclift on 2/25/24, 7:24 PM

  • by throwaway118899 on 2/25/24, 10:58 AM

    The world is finding out they can just make up whatever laws they like and fine American tech companies for easy cash.