In my understanding, the “cease and desist” letter from χwitter against XCancel and Nitter is a warning to stop copyright infringement based on US-Law. The US-Law has no effect on most parts of the world. Why cant we just ignore it altogether? I understand that it will be problematic for US- Citizen but everyone else just have to obey their own countries jurisdiction.
Is there a point in the Internets infrastructure that the USA has enough leverage on to stop it anyway? Or am i downplaying the Influence of US Law on judicial decisions in other countries?
The harmonisation does not mean much.
The Us copyright counts if the new company is doing business in Usa (regardless where the company is).
If they do not care about any users from there, and do not take money from there (for example from ads) they can show them the finger.
Until you remember ICANN is a US org and will give your domain to whomever a judge tells them to, or your CDN disabling your services, or your VM host, crashHub is owned by M$ so they will comply with a takedown of a repo.
“I’m not in the US it doesn’t effect me” makes as much sense as “I don’t care about privacy, I have nothing to hide”
They can put it under the TLD of a country like Belarus or North Korea. But I guess that would be too much of a hassle.
That’s not what I said.
It is about your doing business there, or not.
What’s the basis for this? (More specifically: is this from a specific jurisdiction?)
The simple principle that a country’s law is in force in this country, while in another country it is that other country’s law. It is also called sovereignty.
The US doesn’t respect sovereignty. Hence our sanctions regimes, embargoes, and charging people that have never been to the united states or done business with it with crimes and extraditing them. Ie, people for drugs in latin america that never did business with americans.
That doesn’t change the principle of sovereignty.
Usa has yet to learn.
Sorry, I meant more specifically about the dependency on users and income.
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Look, you obviously aren’t obligated to answer but it feels like you are taking my question as an insult or picking a fight. I really just want to fill the gaps in my knowledge so that I can be better informed.