Showing posts with label south korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south korea. Show all posts
31 March 2013

South Korea Considers Dumping Draconian Copyright Law Forced On It By The US

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As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...
06 January 2013

Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style

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A couple of months back, Mike wrote about how Psy's relaxed attitude to people infringing on his copyright helped turn Gangnam Styl...
15 July 2012

South Korea Gives Mobile Operators Permission To Ignore Net Neutrality By Surcharging Or Blocking VOIP Services

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Net neutrality arguments are often couched in rather theoretical terms, and many people can't really see what all the fuss is about. ...
12 May 2012

South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago

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The problems of monopolies arising through network effects, and the negative effects of the lock-in that results, are familiar enough. Bu...
09 July 2010

South Korea: Super Fast, and Finally Free

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Imagine a country that has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world, and yet its government effectively forbids the use of GNU/...
29 April 2010

Is South Korea's Crazy Experiment Ending?

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I've written a number of times about the curious experiment South Korea has been conducting: making its entire governmental and financi...
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26 June 2009

The World Wins South Korea for Firefox

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I've written before about the curious case of South Korea, where the use of Internet Explorer and ActiveX is almost mandatory. I rathe...
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10 March 2009

South Korea Joins the "Three Strikes" Club

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For years, the content industries having been trying to get laws passed that would stop people sharing files. For years they failed. And t...
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16 January 2009

Google Chrome to Support ActiveX

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I've written before about the parlous state of online computing in South Korea, where practically everyone uses Microsoft's ActiveX ...
15 December 2008

The Rise and Rise of Asianux

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The free software organisation Asianux continues to grow in importance: Viet Nam has officially become a member of Asianux, an organisation...
05 November 2008

If You Can't Beat Them...

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... bribe them: Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key res...
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29 September 2008

Now, That's What I Call a Monoculture

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Apparently, Internet Explorer has a market share of around 98.7% in South Korea. As I understand it, this is largely because the South Kore...
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