Could also have something to do with how corrupt their office is over there. I’ve lots of allegations of female streamers needing to do things such as send nudes or perform sexual acts to stay on the platform. Similar to how the kpop industry is run.

Shouldn’t be that big of a deal. It’s not like they are that into video games in checks notes nevermind, that sounds potentially cataclysmic!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27, it said, after finding that operating in one of the world’s largest esports markets is “prohibitively expensive.”

In a blog post, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said the firm undertook a “significant effort” to reduce the network costs to operate in Korea, but ultimately the fees to operate in Korea was still 10 times more expensive than in most other countries.

While we have lowered costs from these efforts, our network fees in Korea are still 10 times more expensive than in most other countries.”

The Amazon-owned streaming service said it has been operating in Korea at a “significant loss,” and there was “no pathway forward” to run the business sustainably in the country.

It’s unclear why network fees is so expensive in South Korea, though Clancy might be alluding to the recent controversial deliberation in the country to require tech companies to pay for network costs.

Korea has always and will continue to play a special role in the international esports community and we are incredibly grateful for the communities they built on Twitch,” wrote Clancy.

The original article contains 242 words, the summary contains 189 words. Saved 22%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

It’s a real shame that IPv6 multicast is as IPv4’s multicast implementation (global multicast not propagated by ISPs). I feel like live streaming/live TV over the internet could have made really good use of this feature.

It would in theory mean that they wouldn’t even need to operate their own servers in other countries/regions. One server could feed everyone.

The problem is a real one, Netflix for example have ISP level caches so that their content isn’t streamed across the open internet when it doesn’t need to be. But in the rest of the world it’s been resolved differently. I’m honestly not sure how ISPs keep up with the backhaul requirements for an ever increasing requirement for speed.

There are some amazingly uneducated people in this comment section. I’m not going to bother correcting all of them, I’ll just leave links here so people can teach themselves how the god damn internet works.

Jfc.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/osi-model-networking-layers-explained-in-plain-english/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dives-how-the-internet-works/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPvYjXCsTg8

Having a look at the post outside the app I use it’s only hiding the one dude from lemme.nz. Don’t have him blocked from what I can see. No idea how to check for defederation with his instance.

A lot of politician-level takes in this thread.

We are likely going to see more of this kind of thing.

Services like Twitch, Netflix, etc have had a long time of using the pipes for low or no cost, and contributing nothing to the network except congestion.

No one expects the roads to be maintained for free, and for businesses that use the roads, they gotta pay.