Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law?
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Copyright law is highly harmonized in most countries, and has been for a very long time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
I mean you could run it from places that don’t really respect copyright laws but that means no EU etc.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
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.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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”
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
That’s not what I said. It is about your doing business there, or not.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 weeks ago
What’s the basis for this? (More specifically: is this from a specific jurisdiction?)
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
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.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
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.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 weeks ago
Sorry, I meant more specifically about the dependency on users and income.