South Korea is crazy for baseball—it's national team made it to recent finals of the World Baseball Classic, only to lose to Japan—so it seems especially appropriate that the country would be one of the first in the world to adopt an official "three strikes" policy toward copyright infringement on the Internet. While the government can order the disconnection of individual users, a key emphasis here appears to be on websites. Host some infringing content, and the government can shut you down at its discretion.

The Korea Times has more details about the new copyright law, which passed the parliament on April 1 and goes into effect later this year.

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