[HN Gopher] Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
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       Twitch can no longer afford to stay in South Korea
        
       Author : laurex
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-12-09 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (qz.com)
        
       | Manuel_D wrote:
       | Why didn't they just lower the allowed bitrates in Korea? That
       | seems like a more reasonable option than just totally exiting.
        
         | kadomony wrote:
         | They already did that. 720. No one really wants to watch lower
         | than that.
        
         | Nthringas wrote:
         | because lowering quality like that creates poor people
         | 
         | and it's literally a kind of devolution, it's sickening
         | 
         | just kidding, I don't think they care about people
        
       | konschubert wrote:
       | Why is it so much more expensive in South Korea?
        
         | carlhjerpe wrote:
         | Because the sender pays for traffic
        
           | konschubert wrote:
           | so the ISPs are sucking the life out of the market?
        
             | Strom wrote:
             | In some sense yes, but more precisely they have
             | successfully lobbied the politicians to pass laws in their
             | favor.
        
       | jnwatson wrote:
       | See discussion from here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539167
        
       | nine_k wrote:
       | I hope this tax will help SK's internet services and audience
       | thrive :(
        
       | diob wrote:
       | Basically all about having a homegrown solutions for South Korea,
       | so the money flows there rather than an international
       | corporation.
       | 
       | What will be interesting is if that homegrown solution is also
       | used overseas, as then other countries will have to consider
       | whether to retaliate with a similar "tax".
        
         | konschubert wrote:
         | You can have a homegrown solution but it won't have the
         | content.
        
         | viraptor wrote:
         | Why do you think so? It sounds like this pricing structure
         | applies to any company, local or foreign. Or an I mistaken
         | here?
        
       | darkwater wrote:
       | I don't agree with SK "Internet tax" concept but isn't it sweet
       | that an Amazon-owned company suffers this end? Yeah, I'm looking
       | at you, AWS egress prices and NAT-gw.
        
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