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Isn't this a violation of copyright? Assuming edia is protected by international law even when you don't particularly like the nation that produced said content
by tomcooks 6y ago
Isn't this a violation of copyright? Assuming edia is protected by international law even when you don't particularly like the nation that produced said content.
- unicornporn 6y agoCopyright is bourgeoisie concept. Ask Kim.
- joshuaissac 6y agoNorth Korea has local copyright laws and is a signatory to the Berne Convention.
- da_big_ghey 6y agoAnd yet, Red Star OS does not open-source any upstream contributions. I'm sure there were some modifications made that were not disclosed in compliance with applicable licenses.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIIRC it's mostly bog-standard. Most of their modifications are either simply changing the branding, changing the i18n files, or adding custom software. That said, it would probably be quite fun to send GPL-compliance requests for source code, I almost want to try :)
- da_big_ghey 6y agoHah, someone ought to tell rms. If anyone would actually go to N. Korea and confront Kim, it would be him. Or maybe the gov't could go after N. Korea on the license violation under the Berne convention? Like tax evasion bringing down Al Capone, though I'm sure it wouldn't work.
- phjesusthatguy3 6y agowhat are they going to do, sue? (this is my answer to every one of my actions that may be construed as copyright infringement)
- collegeburner 6y agohttps://archive.vn/QHkz8 https://archive.vn/QHkz8
- phjesusthatguy3 6y agoYep. Like the hysteria about China trolling through my (American citizen) data from my phone. CCP probably isn't going to extraordinarily rendition me, whatever horrible, unkind, true-or-untrue things I say about them. The US Government? Fuck no I don't want them going through my data, they've already proven they don't actually give a fuck about the piece of paper from which they derive power.
- Spooky23 6y agoThere’s a whole industry that basically exists to accept these terms from Federal and State government. They skim a few points, get screwed by the receivables for late payment, and accept whatever onerous terms that are imposed. For example, a global company needs to report on how many Northern Irish employees are Catholic or Protestant to sell crap to New York City. Nobody wants to deal with crap like that, so the reseller sucks it up.
- unicornporn 6y ago> North Korea has local copyright laws and is a signatory to the Berne Convention. They're also a democracy (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
- sorokod 6y agoand fratricide. Ask Kim.
- StavrosK 6y agoPlease leave the Kardashians out of this.
- labster 6y agoThe first thing this capitalist does when he sees a photo of nature’s bounty is to ask who owns the beauty and have they been paid.
- collegeburner 6y agoAnd the first thing a communist does is starve out the native inhabitants or erect a concentration camp.
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- TheRealSteel 6y agoQuite sure you are thinking of capitalists there buddy
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- wizzwizz4 6y agoHot take: bad people claim to use whatever economic system is most politically convenient, and use whatever economic system is most practically convenient, for them to stay in power.
- lscotte 6y agoNo.
- TheRealSteel 6y agoI'm quite sure they were.
- toiletfuneral 6y agoyou're a fucking dumbass
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- f430 6y agoped·ant·ry /ˈped(ə)ntrē/ noun excessive concern with minor details and rules.
- retrac 6y agoPossibly. More of an interesting question philosophically than purely legally, IMO. The issue of copyright in traditionally Communist countries is interesting, as they don't generally recognize it. North Korea had no copyright at all until they passed a (probably purely for show) law meeting the minimum requirements of the Berne Convention in 2001 so they could enter some global treaties and trade arrangements. Internally, there appears to really be no such concept in North Korean society.
- nexthash 6y agoAre you serious? Let me remind you that the Kim family's little regime has killed hundred of thousands of people and is under a complete economic embargo for its human rights violations. I can defame, republish, and make money off of anything that comes out of there if I choose, and there is nothing that they can do to stop me. Sending a representative of the regime to a court in the US to pursue copyright is by itself an earth-shattering precedent, and if it happens the rep will probably be laughed out of that courtroom right into a jail cell if they don't try to defect. The point is, feed your citizens before trying to be taken seriously.
- joshuaissac 6y ago> if it happens the rep will probably be laughed out of that courtroom right into a jail cell if they don't try to defect The US does not jail representatives of enemy nations as a matter of course. There is a North Korean representative in New York (to the UN) and they are not being arrested and thrown in jail. As long as they follow the local laws, I expect that any other representative (like a hypothetical one that wants to sue for alleged copyright infringement) would be similarly protected by the law.
- Symbiote 6y agoDiplomats don't need to follow local laws, though if they break them they cause political problems and usually have to leave the country. (For example, the US diplomat's wife who was driving negligently and killed a British person last year.)
- ymbeld 6y agoI believe they are making a point. It’s easy to see the cruelties of other regimes but a bit harder to distinguish the propaganda coming from within one’s own regime.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26139364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26139364
- shadowgovt 6y agoNot a lawyer, but (for the US at least) it appears the US recgonizes the DPRK as a co-signatory to the Berne treaty (https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf), which implies the US recognizes DPRK copyright. That having been said, I don't know the copyright status of these ripped resources WRT how the DPRK treats them (what's the copyright on the OS itself)?