VPNs aren’t the solution to shitty laws, nor can you expect that to be a valid mass solution
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Desistance@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Couldn’t Koreans just VPN to another country?
mojo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
This’ll probably happen, anyone wanting to watch or stream on Twitch will probably just go through the Japanese servers. But Twitch isn’t that popular in Korea anyways, most of the Koreans on the platform have large foreign audiences.
roguetrick@kbin.social 6 months ago
What's funny is Korean VPNs would be paying the fees to the ISPs instead, lol. ISPs still get their money.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 months ago
Which would be passed to their customers in the form of more expensive VPN price. Either way, the ISPs are the winner here, and I think someone mentioned that it’s practically impossible to create a new ISP due to regulatory capture so there will be no competition to challenge the oligopoly.
Konraddo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No need. Asian countries are not blocked from using Twitch. It’s just Twitch won’t have local business in Korea now.