Running a website in Germany seems like a god damned nightmare:
https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/abmahnung-creative-commons
https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/abmahnung-creative-commons
That copyright example by the way, that applies everywhere.
> The browsers don't share third-party caches across domains, because it made it easier to leak information about which sites the user has visited.
> September 21: After months of silence, we have received another letter from Kanzlei Schröder. This time, they threaten to take us to court unless we pay 400€ by October 1. We decided to pay. That was our last interaction with Kanzlei Schröder.
The government has the absolute authority to regulate you into a corner, if need be, to protect its people from predation by powerful interests. That's what governments are for.
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-...
(action still required: authors need to update to CC 4.0 or later)
It has a very chilling effect on innovation no doubt.
The worst you could do to a lawyer is that maybe you could embarrass them about their lack of network engineering knowledge, but they in turn can extract real money from you through various means.
Also defending oneself results in involving a different lawyer enriching lawyers as a whole anyways.
I’m fairly certain it’s possible to do much worse to a laywer, especially a technically clueless one.
Defending oneself from a frivolous lawsuit (e.g. judge has already said ‘you can’t do that’) in a sensible country like Germany might not cost you anything.
Much, much more likely however, is that they wouldn’t go to court at all (because, you know, they would lose, and even if both sides pay their own cost they’d lose more money than they could potentially make).