Reply to post: Re: Barking up the wrong tree?

EU court: Linking to pirated stuff doesn't breach copyright... except when it does

Charles 9

Re: Barking up the wrong tree?

"Yet they offer a paid-for service to US residents so they do have a DMCA takedown procedure."

Not necessarily. The service is based in a non-US jurisdiction. If the US government sends them a takedown notice, they can respond that Hong Kong's (and thus China's) sovereign laws do not respect these notices. What can the US do then?

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