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

  • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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    288 months ago

    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.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      128 months ago

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

  • @BigMikeInAustin
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    128 months ago

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

    • @LeroyJenkins
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      08 months ago

      sanctions on NK goes from hard to soft im waves over the years. arguably the heaviest sanctions were imposed from nuclear tests they conducted in like the 2000s. not sure where sanctions on animation came into place, but they very well could’ve been allowed at one point when tensions weren’t as high.

  • Flyswat
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    88 months ago

    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?

      • XNX
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        8 months ago

        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

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          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

      • @Dkarma
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        18 months ago

        Not even remotely relevant to what op said.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      -28 months ago

      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! 💯💯💯

        • @[email protected]
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          08 months ago

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  • @MIDItheKID
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    48 months ago

    But like… Where can I watch these?

    • veroxii
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      168 months ago

      Amazon and HBO. They were doing animation for the proper shows. Not creating North Korean clones.

      • @MIDItheKID
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        28 months ago

        Ohhh I completely misunderstood that. I really wanted to watch bootleg animations with the same audio.

  • @[email protected]
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    Sanctions placed upon the North Korean regime, for its ongoing human rights abuses and nuclear warfare programs

    Damn where are the sanctions on the US? You know, the only country crazy enough to use those nukes on actual human beings instead of just using it as a deterrence like the DPRK does?

      • @Dkarma
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        18 months ago

        What part isn’t true tho?

        Jingoists are hilarious on all sides.