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Strangely, if you're going to mess with IP in any country, Japan is one of the ones that you should not. Japanese law is infamously brutal about copyright and has no concept of fair use, so you can get smacked very easily by it.

I guess they don't have assets in Japan to risk and therefore don't care.



> I guess they don't have assets in Japan to risk and therefore don't care.

That's the benefit of being a corporation that keeps its physical presence in its home country, especially in the internet age. Perhaps the US gov could sponsor Starlink as a way to break local ISP bans…




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