I don't live in the USA, why should I be affected by the RIAA and DMCA outside the USA? If I ping github.com, it is resolved as lb-140-82-121-4-fra.github.com , so what is the rational behind the global takedown?
From TFA.
I supect this was included by the author in anticipation of such questions.
End of the day, Github is a US-based business, and they are subject to US laws, and thus all of their customers/users are affected by those laws, whether or not they're in the USA.
- Where the servers are located. - Where the comparably offices are located, - where the business is registered, - where the employees live or travel to/from - employees in any country who are quite happy to ship people to the US even when that employee has not broken any law.