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by hoherd 1206 days ago
IANAL but doesn't DMCA only apply in USA, whereas this case is taking place in Europe, and would thus provide legal precedent in some European jurisdiction?
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The US Trade Office publishes a literal naughty list of countries that aren't playing nice with its intellectual property laws. Full of language such as "stakeholders" too. Corporations literay use the might of the US government to police their imaginary property across the globe.

Don't underestimate these monopolists. My country regularly makes it to this list. I remember some MPAA asshole coming here to push his agenda being met by journalists asking him why this should be a priority in a country without universal basic sanitation. Now we have increasingly regular IP enforcement. One such operation made national news a few days ago.

Could you provide a link to the "naughty list"?
Quite a useful list of naughty websites in there too...
USA successfully enforces its laws everywhere https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-do...
The DMCA is the US’s implementation of the 1996 WIPO copyright treaty, which almost the entire developed world has ratified.
The EU also has implemented even worse takedown laws and is currently fining and suing its members for not following their regulations on them.