> Mere responding is evidently not enough, you need to cooperate.
Only if the request is coming from a country with a lot of power to effect its judgments internationally, or from a country you plan to personally visit. Whether or not you agree with it, ignoring legal requests from the US, China, and the EU (and debatably some other countries), isn't really an option in this day and age.
Until you wanted to visit a small country on vacation and forgot you ignored their court order 4 years ago.
Or you visit some random country and didn't check the extradition treaties they have with some other country you thought you'd never visit.
Or maybe new extradition treaties (yay!)
The sad conclusion I'm seeing in this story is: If you make an internet service, it's safer to just block off all the countries except the specific ones you're planning to operate in.
Only if the request is coming from a country with a lot of power to effect its judgments internationally, or from a country you plan to personally visit. Whether or not you agree with it, ignoring legal requests from the US, China, and the EU (and debatably some other countries), isn't really an option in this day and age.