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To Avoid Korean Law, YouTube Disables Some Features

in News on April 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm PT

YouTube’s cat-and-mouse game with governments abroad continues. To avoid a South Korean law that would require users who upload or comment on videos to first register with their real names, YouTube last week disabled those two features on its local Korean site, according to the company. The move garnered new attention Monday, after it was reported by a Korean publication, Hankyoreh.