The History of the DMCA and the WIPO Copyright Treaty

Bruce Lehman, who had been the head copyright counsel for Microsoft, rotated into government in a role where he was overseeing the very same conduct that Microsoft would later be convicted of antitrust violations. He went to the World Intellectual Property Organization, which is an industry body that later became a UN specialized agency. WIPO was really just an industry talking shop that legitimized itself by becoming a UN agency. It's not that the law wasn't violated, and it's not that there isn't an ability to enforce it. The corporate capture of Ireland combined with the intergovernmental nature of the European Union made the GDPR hard to enforce.