• Nevoic
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    10 months ago

    Why is the content ubiquitously pirated if it’s legal and totally acceptable in NK?

    I could imagine someone unfamiliar with America saying “weed is ubiquitous and nobody gives a shit”, but that’d be a massive oversimplification given we have a metric fuckton of people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.

    Could it not be the case that in NK that pirating and watching foreign media is both extremely common and against the law/lands people in prison?

    And if that is the case, then even if this one case happens to be fabricated, there’s likely a ton of cases where people are actually imprisoned for breaking the law, since that’s usually how breaking laws goes. I don’t think it should be against the law to watch foreign media.

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      10 months ago

      Why is the content ubiquitously pirated if it’s legal and totally acceptable in NK?

      This is speculation, but I’m gonna take a wild guess and say South Korea refuses to license media to the DPRK so they literally have no other choice but to pirate it. Like if you tried to obtain a PS1 game in the West right now, Sony isn’t selling the vast majority of them any longer so your best bet is to download it from a ROM site.

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      10 months ago

      Why is the content ubiquitously pirated if it’s legal and totally acceptable in NK?

      Do you pay for content??

      Could it not be the case

      there’s likely a ton of cases

      I don’t think it should be

      Thank you for your feels based analysis