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?
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.
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.