Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service

Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by Wingy on Saturday February 24, 2024 @08:55PM (#39496885)

If they're exiting anyway, what happens if Twitch just doesn't pay the fine?

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by ripjaygn on Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:05PM (#39496948)

Amazon owns Twitch and I guess it has a large presence in SK, so the govt will find a way to extract the fine, for example by enjoining Amazon's bank to transfer them the money.

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by giancarlostoro on Saturday February 24, 2024 @11:19PM (#39497593)

I guess Amazon will likely just pay just to move on.

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by jannyfer on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:57PM (#39497468)

> I guess it has a large presence in SK

It doesn’t.

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by coffeebeqn on Saturday February 24, 2024 @11:07PM (#39497517)

AWS has a big data center at least

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Re:Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service by paulddraper on Sunday February 25, 2024 @01:53AM (#39498313)

And given the (relatively) small amount of the fine, they'll probably pay it to avoid any risks.

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