Thousands of exposed files on North Korean server tell the tale.

30 points

Based on the title, I thought it meant they were pulling a “wikiHow” and rotoscoping/reanimating existing movies and TV shows. No, they’re contract animators working for HBO Max and Amazon.

When Roy discovered the exposed cloud server, it was being updated on a daily basis. Martyn Williams, a senior fellow on the 38 North Project who helped analyze the contents of the server, says the server likely allowed work to be sent to and from North Korean animators. The server itself is still live, but it mysteriously stopped being used at the end of February. While there is a login page, its contents can be accessed without a username and password. “I found the login page after I found all the exposed files,” Roy says.

I wonder if anyone can find the cloud server, and if so, archive the contents. It’s always fascinating seeing behind-the-scenes details about shows, but official behind-the-scenes footage always lacks depth. It’d be cool to archive that stuff.

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The fact that it’s not rotoscoped North Korean remakes proves we’re not in the Good Place.

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Sanctions placed upon the North Korean regime, for its ongoing human rights abuses and nuclear warfare programs, prohibit US companies from working with DPRK companies or individuals

Does that mean the rest of the world is morally obliged to do the same to the US for the same reasons?

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NK literally doesn’t have famine because the West gives them food.

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I don’t fuck with the North Korean government but starting a population because of their leaders they can’t even elect is fucked up and our leaders are conquering the world while we pay them to do it and no one punishes us for it

why are they so poor? why is Cuba so poor? How many countries has north korea bombed? How many coups have they orchestrated around the world? How many genocides have they committed and are committing? Collective punishment is a war crime, the North Korean people and the Cuban people shouldn’t suffer and starve for the crimes of their leaders. If you think they should but don’t think we deserve punishment for them millions of innocent people or governments kill then maybe you should wonder why you think that

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Agree 100%

I think Cuba is a great example, since it’s less emotional right now for most people. We’ve been starving those people since 1960 for what? For cooperating and allying with a country that we didn’t like? For nationalizing the oil we were harvesting on their island and selling for our profit? (After we started santioning them too) 64 years of collective punishment for being too commie near our precious stolen land.

Our government does deserve blowback for what we’ve done in our relatively short time around. I hope it isn’t taken out on the people, but if it is I guess it makes sense for how we treated everyone else.

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I think it is very easy to say that. If you had the US government and their allies, what would you do then?

Befriend them? Tried that got Hitler.

Eradicate them? Lost wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan and Korea over the same thing.

Let them be? And if they start accruing power and their way of being is a threat to yours, what then?

I’m not saying I agree but you act as if it is assault or something

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Not even remotely relevant to what op said.

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This commenter is suggesting people treat the US like they treat NK.

US - NK relations are very one sided. US is offering aid and NK is offering threats. From my understanding the country lives in a hard mix of ignorance and fear because of their government. NK also threatens our allies with nuclear destruction. We still present them with aid.

It is fun and cute to point at all the stuff the US does wrong but I can literally change my president, I can speak ill of them and the information they hide often still comes to light so for OP to suggest people treat the US like that they’re choosing to frame them as equals when they’re really not. World isn’t perfect but the US government is miles above the NK one in basically all regards.

If NK had the money and the US had the famine I don’t think they’d be offering aid to the American populace in the same way the US does.

So yes it is extremely relevant to consider how you’d be treated if the roles were reversed and then you understand why these sanctions are in place. NK is no ally and most of their positions on international affairs are simply anti-west.

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It’s so unfair! 😭💔

Everyone bullies Kim and no one stands up the the US 😡

It this was a school yard than it would be the most unfair schoolyard ever! 💯💯💯

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Annoying use of emojis

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12 points

I propose the title “Amazon and HBO Max offshore work, which ended up paying North Korea. But the stock market responded well.”

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uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire.

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Good for them. Maybe the sanctions should be removed since:

A) they obviously dont work and

B) if socialism is so bad i’m sure the state will fall on it’s own without outside pressure

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NK

Socialism

Choose one

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Tankies, at least on Lemmy, tend to base their opinion less on actual leftist ideology and entirely on “US bad”. That’s why they love Putin’s Russia so much, why they support the oppressive North Korean dictatorship, and also why they manage to “broken clock” themselves into the right side of the Israeli genocide of Palestine.

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NK good started up as soon as NK delivered weapons for Russia.

Not a coinkydoink.

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Sanctions never worked as intended. Troll farms are nowadays more powerful.

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Sanctions never worked as intended.

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Fuck North Korea.

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Uncritical support to the DPRK in its heroic struggle against the genocidal US empire

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heroic struggle against the genocidal US empire

Damn that’s specially relevant right now

Common DPRK W

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kbin user with a eugenics username

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Lol eugenics username? You can’t be serious

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