Google has disabled the upload and comments feature for the Korean version of its video portal “YouTube”. This decision was made by Google after the South Korean government announced a new law.

The law named ” The Cyber Defamation Law” demands sites who have 100,000 unique visitors or more to get the user to  provide their name and natioanl ID number whenever they upload files or leave comments.

While Google has clearly obeyed the law, they have also provided a trick to get around this law. One can easily overcome this barrier by changing the preferred nation from Korea to some other nation. So Korean users dont have to worry much about this restriction since they have an escape route defined to them by Google.