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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by eutropia on Saturday February 24, 2024 @07:12PM (#39496343)
Korea has afaik much higher cost to deliver data for international services because they charge the sender of the data per unit, and Twitch couldn’t operate profitably despite the obvious market fit.

Surprising that they’re fining them on top of it though!

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by echelon on Saturday February 24, 2024 @08:49PM (#39496862)
> they charge the sender of the data per unit

This is why Twitch is leaving.

This is absolutely insane.

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by teaearlgraycold on Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:05PM (#39496952)
Sorry for asking what I could Google for myself - do they not charge ISP customers for data received? Are they double, or even triple-dipping?
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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by kijin on Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:27PM (#39497060)
Of course they're double dipping.

Korean ISPs can't charge the customers more, because many of the customers (both landline and mobile) have been promised "unlimited" data. There'd be a colossal shitstorm if they ever tried to take that back. So they look for easier prey: foreign video streaming platforms.

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by deprecative on Sunday February 25, 2024 @01:03AM (#39498103)
Yet in the US they took it away and we thanked them for the honor. It seems to be coming back but not quite these days.
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