Re:Media files extracted from North Korea's Red Star OS
by joshuaissac on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:42PM
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> 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.
Re:Media files extracted from North Korea's Red Star OS
by Symbiote on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:59PM
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Diplomats 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.)
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.