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Jan Keček

Doubt cast on Pirate Bay's claim to have set up in North Korea | Technology | guardian.... - 0 views

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shared by Jan Keček on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Pirate Bay says it was 'persecuted for beliefs of freedom' but analysts say site is still likely being routed through Europe
  • The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing site that was ejected from Sweden last week, claimed to have set up shop in North Korea on Monday.
  • The Pirate Bay is a popular site that hosts links to torrented material, though a separate program is required to download the links' content. This function puts the Pirate Bay in a legal grey area in most countries though it has been the subject of many lawsuits.
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  • It seems that the Pirate Bay's claim was an elaborate joke. North Korea has been claiming to have opened up its internet boders recently, playing host to Google executive Eric Schmidt. In late February, North Korea began allowing foreigners to access mobile internet, resulting in a fresh cache of Instagram images of North Korea.
Jan Sekavčnik

Twitter in Pyongyang: how North Korea got the mobile internet | Technology | guardian.c... - 1 views

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shared by Jan Sekavčnik on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • the secretive country begins allowing tourists to use the mobile internet
  • it was believed to be the first tweet sent from a mobile phone using the country's new 3G mobile data service.
  • photographer David Guttenfelder uploaded an image to Instagram of a tour guide at a mountain temple, geotagged to Pyongyang.
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  • In 2009, I did not offer up my iPhone as we went through customs
  • We'd leave our mobile phones at the airport but use locally purchased phones with SIM cards
  • broadband internet that may be installed on request at our hotel, which is for international visitors.
  • But they cannot surf the "international" internet
  • sim cards are €50,
  • calls to Switzerland are an inexplicably cheap €0.38 a minute
  • Our North Korean colleagues watched with surprise as we showed them we could surf the internet from our phones.
  • Not all North Koreans have local mobile phones
  • The world wide web remains strictly off limits for most North Koreans
  • 3G mobile internet would be available within a week only for foreigners.
  • North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system
  • Students say they can email one another, but they can't send emails outside the country.
  • Kim Jong Un has pushed science and technology as major policy directives, and we're starting to see more laptops in North Korean offices
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    "Ads by Browse to Save Twitter in Pyongyang: how North Korea got the mobile internet"
Jan Majdič

China to Web Users: Great Firewall? Just Be Glad We're Not North Korea - David Caraglia... - 1 views

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  • Last week, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt urged North Korean leaders to embrace the Internet. Only a small proportion of that country's 24 million people can access the World Wide Web, and the majority of the 1.5 million mobile phones there belong to political and military elites.
  • Meanwhile, in China, a country that has embraced the Internet to a much greater extent, the big story was about censorship, both online and off.
  • For Chinese social media users, the irony here was too perfect to go unnoticed
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  • A number of social networking and sharing websites are blocked in China, including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, and certain Google applications
  • "China's progress must be viewed in the context of its unique historical and cultural circumstances.
  • Web users engage with and identify as part of a broader, sometimes international, online community
  • Chinese public preferences are shifting from broadcast media to networked media; with that shift, the expectation for public participation is growing.
  • Knowing well the impact and viral nature of social networking, editors loyal to propaganda authorities took control of the newspaper's microblogging account not long after the scandal broke.
manca_

North Korea's 3G network won't be censored for foreigners | The Verge - 1 views

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  • long maintained tight control over the flow of information within its borders
  • foreigners
  • unfettered mobile access to the web
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  • thanks to new policies implemented by supreme leader Kim Jong Un
  • that required foreigners to hand over their devices to authorities.
  • country has finally begun opening its doors to the outside world,
  • some 3G services, including text messaging, video calls, and subscriptions to state-run newspapers, but their mobile internet will remain tightly filtered, since North Koreans are still "governed by a separate set of telecommunication rules,"
  • two parallel internets — one for foreigners, one for citizens
  • visitors
  • about $300 for the cheapest 2GB data package.
metapavlin

European Parliament Rejects Anti-Piracy Treaty - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by metapavlin on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • rejected an international treaty to crack down on digital piracy, a vote that Internet freedom groups hailed as a victory for democracy but that media companies lamented as a setback for the creative industries.
  • European legislators
  • Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, which has been signed by the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, South Korea and a number of individual E.U. members.
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  • unauthorized sharing of music, movies and other digital media. Treaty opponents had rallied tens of thousands of protesters to the streets of European capitals last winter, dangling the threat that approval of the pact would lead to the proliferation of anti-piracy measures.
  • “Hello democracy, goodbye ACTA.”
  • The vote, they added, would hurt efforts to reduce online copyright theft, potentially costing Europe jobs at a time when it desperately needs them.
  • “It’s a political symbol on an enormous scale, in which citizens of the world, connected by the Internet, have managed to defeat these powerful, entrenched industries.”
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