Travel: Visit North Korea...

Boingboing.net has an interesting story about a game of cat and mouse with the Korean Friendship Association. Seems the KFA posted a flash movied inviting one and all to join their group and come along on a magical tour of the DPRK. Boingboing found that interesting, and posted a link. The KFA website (apparently run out of Barcelona) posted an interesting reaction:

Access to the requested object was denied.
Due to some inconsiderate people linking directly to our multimedia we were forced to take the content offline since it generated too much traffic.

This kind of careless linking to high-profile sites is typical of the internet where people no longer respect that such links could make free content less available.

We will never charge money to pay for the bandwidth, so if people are going to expect high-quality content they should make their own copy of the large file and share it from their own server.

Questions can be sent to support@korea-dpr.com for technical advice.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Link to the movie

Link to the story