Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended? It's not hard if you want to, and you're a good user otherwise. We've had to ask you this many times.
Clickthrough agreements being enforceable is an abuse of copyright law, exactly the opposite of "lawless".
Heck, what if they said that everyone doing things their way is their condition on staying in WIPO, and if a country can’t bring its corporations into line, then the EU will declare all WIPO IP-right assertions originating from that country null and void within the EU, free for any EU corporation to exploit?
EU would effectively be declaring war on a significant percentage of the world. They have no jurisdiction beyond their borders.
Taking your ball and going home, while not the best for business, should be an option.
Or, to put that another way: WIPO itself is something the US "forced" on the rest of the world. But it wasn't actually force; it was just a condition on other nations continuing to trade with the US.
As per wiktionary.org: "To cease participating in an activity that has turned to one's disadvantage, especially out of spite, or in a way that prevents others from participating as well."
You are assuming a point I did not make.