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by josecurioso 2947 days ago
Look at it this way: "my website is in the EU, my servers are in the EU, why would I care about DMCA?" The truth is that if a company had a way to discriminate their EU users without any possibility of failure they could only apply these things to them but that approach has proven to not be cost effective.
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You do realize there's a difference between a law and a treaty and there are international treaties governing copyrights, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_copyright_treati...

I'm not aware of all the details, but is the answer to your question "you wouldn't"?