North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled

Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by koolba on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:00AM (#12342719)

> "If a viewer wants to watch, for instance, an animal movie and sends a request to the equipment, it will show the relevant video to the viewer…this is two-way communications," said Kim Jong Min, head of the centre in charge of providing information and technology, according to NK News.

Hong Gildong wants to watch a funny cat video, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed.

Hong Gildong wants to watch an action movie, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed.

Hong Gildong wants to watch an award winning drama, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed.

Hong Gildong wants to watch a movie about a rebel insurrection, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying the achievements of glorious leader will be displayed to entertain him until the delocation squad arrives.

Seriously though, with all the crap that we give to internet companies for gathering data and using it for ad targeting, imagine all the other kinds of "targeting" that could happen.

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by varjag on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:13AM (#12342764)

The best on demand is on progressive peoples demand.

I wonder how much telecom infrastructure suitable for streaming is there in NK, outside central Pyongyang. Would that be basically a glorified hotel entertainment system?

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by erelde on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:26AM (#12342806)

I think I remember reading something about how the network inside NK was basically running off one (edit: a few) IP addresses with an enterprise local network.

I think that was posted on HN, I'll try to find the link.

edit: was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123888

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by throwaway049 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @08:30AM (#12343133)

From further down the article, this implies more than one address: In May security researcher Doug Madory discovered a social network - resembling a crude clone of Facebook - on a North Korean internet address. "I don't believe it was intended to be accessible from outside North Korea," Mr Madory told the BBC.

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by dogma1138 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @08:34AM (#12343154)

Telecom infrastructure can be easy, just use RF/MW :) Outside of Pyongyang you are lucky if you have access to electricity ;)

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by jimmies on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:24PM (#12346692)

John Smith wants to watch a funny cat video, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and a video displaying a cat food product will be displayed.

John Smith wants to watch an action movie, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and TEN videos displaying how copying movies will make you go to jail will be displayed.

John Smith wants to watch an award winning drama, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and TEN videos displaying how copying movies will make you go to jail will be displayed.

John Smith wants to watch a movie about a rebel insurrection, the request is sent to the central server, processed, and TEN videos displaying how copying movies will make you go to jail will be displayed.

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by cbhl on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @12:32PM (#12345020)

You might like Dear Leader, which is a party card game about the awfulness of dictators. The kickstarter for it ends tomorrow.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timh/dear-leader

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by bbctol on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:46AM (#12343649)

It's video on demand! The leader demands, and you watch the video!

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by mseebach on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:11AM (#12342757)

If there's no deviant material available on the service (and let's assume there won't be), it's not necessary to track who's interested in it.

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Re:North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled by koolba on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:14AM (#12342769)

I bet there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29

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