Comment on XCancel and Nitter: Why bother with US Law?
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 1 week ago
Adding on to the comment about the Berne Convention: Threats of legal action are sometimes meant to intimidate and inconvenience. It doesn’t really matter if they have legal standing or not. The fear of having to defend yourself in court (or a service provider deciding the don’t want the risk and dropping you) is sometimes enough. These letters are super cheap to draft and send so they are sometimes scatter shot.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Which is basically what patent trolls do. Most of their claims would not win in court, they are threatening people with having to fight a long expensive court battle or pay them less than that battle would cost.
It is extortion.