The e-sports streamer Twitch is pulling out of South Korea because it’s gotten “prohibitively expensive” to run its service there. The Amazon-owned platform will stop serving the country on Feb. 27.
Welcome to the inevitable consequences of the so-called “fair share” concept in telecommunications, which I’ve already written about a couple of times this year—EU digital chief Thierry Breton, a former telecoms CEO, ran a consultation about introducing it in Europe, only to back off when almost everyone who wasn’t a big telco said it was a terrible idea.
