[FirmwareBurner]

Booted out of the country mate. Why are you acting daft? Do you think Starlink could operate in Spain without a regional/EU branch that serves Spanish customers, collects payments, pays Spanish/EU taxes and can be summoned to court if it doesn't follow Spanish laws?

That's why Starlink has geofencing in place so they can ensure it operates only in regions they're legally autorized to, it's not some pirate HAM network that can just freely operate while evading local laws willy nilly.

[ty6853]

HAM isn't an acronym, FYI.

If you break the internet and summon starlink yes I think pirates will take the void.

[FirmwareBurner]

How many pirate ISPs exist in EU? How many of them have satellites in orbit?

[ty6853]

How many ibuprofen pirates are there in Europe? None, because it's easy enough to get it without a cartel operation.

Making wanted goods and services illegal just hands profits to the black market, it doesn't stop them. If Spain bans the internet there will be pirate ISPs tomorrow.

[FirmwareBurner]

>it doesn't stop them.

Yeah? Where are the pirate ISPs of North Korea then?

Mate, you're fighting with ghosts here. There are legit ISPs in EU, you don't need pirate ones. And there are legit VPNs to bypass whatever soft government restrictions are in place. There's no point arguing about endless made up hypotheticals.

[QuarterReptile]

Do we suspect there's significant demand for internet in North Korea? Market potential, sure. But I'm guessing if you asked North Korea what information distribution they wanted, they would say they just want a more honest newspaper.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Do we suspect there's significant demand for internet in North Korea?

Why not? They literally throw USB sticks and optical media over the border. After my country broke away from communism, content consumption of foreign media was the highest priority.

[Scoundreller]

> How many ibuprofen pirates are there in Europe? None, because it's easy enough to get it without a cartel operation.

In a lot of Europe, you can only buy a handful at a time (like 16), at a relatively hefty per-tablet price and only from a pharmacy (good luck on sunday in a lot of places).

In France, you can’t just grab it off the shelf yourself anymore: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200115-pharmacies-ordered-sel...

Sometimes I leave part of my 500 ct bottle from Amerika because I don’t know why I bought so many in the first place.

[concordDance]

It could using crypto, but Spain would complain to the USA and they'd back down.

[hinkley]

Three years ago they would. Not for the next four.

[hulitu]

> Three years ago they would. Not for the next four.

You must be fun at parties.

Why do you think so ? They kissed American ass for a long time. Why should they stop ?