North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

Post by ch4s3 » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 1:40 AM UTC

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North Korea doesn't have a great history with respect to foreign "guests"[1]. Here's a choice quote: >The four lived together in a two-bedroom house outside of Pyongyang, where they were forced to study the writings of then-leader Kim Il Sung and were subject to regular beatings. They were also featured prominently in propaganda magazines and movies. [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188656665/travis-king-north-...

Totally agree, but I'll point out they entered as technically enemy combatants, not with a visa. And dresnok said the opposite and retired fat and with alcohol cirrhotic liver and a nice stolen wife and downtown apartment, which is far more than he would've got in USA as such a lazy, stupid, criminal that he was. He even become a local celebrity as a movie star playing as a white devil.

Post by colechristensen » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 1:49 AM UTC

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> How guilty you are is a function of how good a job the state department thinks you're doing trying to avoid sanctions violations. Is the standard for this codified in clear language anywhere, or is it merely based on the whims of some federal prosecutor/judge? If I make digital watches, and I buy coin cell batteries from a supplier who buys battery precursors from a supplier who buys LiCoO2 from a manufacturer who…

Feds have 99+% conviction rate and infinite money and time, meanwhile you sit in cage and deal with frozen accounts while trying to pay your attorney. They imprisoned weev for doing arithmetic on wget'ing a public website. Worst sin is angering the gods. I would imagine most the time theyll probably just ask nicely for you to stop, then bury you if you don't, but for political or convenient targets they seem fine goi…

Post by beaeglebeachh » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 2:00 AM UTC

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Its not hyperbole, you're just using misguided rhetoric of the prosecution. Weev has escaped to Ukraine in any case, those same bumbling idiots making your argument had their conviction dropped on appeal.

His appeal was decided on a technicality over where the case was brought: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/appeals-court-re... It’s certainly possible that a court might have found his actions did not violate the relevant laws, but that was not the case in the first trial where he had full opportunity to challenge the prosecution’s claims. You might characterize that as “misguided rhetoric” but that should…

Post by jhbadger » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 2:14 AM UTC

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It's also wild that it somehow makes financial sense to outsource a core input into your product. A company that makes animations outsourcing animation makes as much sense to me as a software company outsourcing engineering. Though we do have a plane company that outsources making planes, but that's going some sort of way right now...

Oooh I can try tackling a bit of this (I'll try not to ramble... ) But anyway studios have been outsourcing animation work to Asian countries for a while now. You might have seen some of the work product from one of the larger Japanese animation studios: TMS Enterainment who has worked on things like Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, The New Batman Adventures in addition to shows like Tiny Toon Adventures a…

Post by kalleboo » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 3:40 AM UTC

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Classic 'two steps removed' syndrome. "I told X to get it done. What X did to get it done is not my fault/responsibility."

What do you mean with "syndrome"? Of course business customers can not be held responsible for what other businesses do. If Amazon buys floor tiles for their factories from a company that provides floor tiles to many other companies, how can Amazon be held responsible for any of their unethical practices? Or is it the faith of hackers that any misdoing in the world should always be traced back and blamed on a tech gi…