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Are 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 it
by nexthash 6y ago
Are 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