BREAKING NEWS! US wins extradition of British student over UK-based website!

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The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement department first seized O’Dwyer’s website, TVShack.com, in June 2010. At the time they were able to shut-down the site as the US has jurisdiction over any .net and .com domain names, a revelation which prompted O’Dwyer to relaunch his site with a .cc domain extension shortly after. Even still, authorities were back in a matter of months and questioned O’Dwyer over his revamped operation. That meeting happened in November, and the boy’s mother explained to Ars Technica at the time, "One of them said 'Don't worry, you won't have to go to America.'"

"If Richard appears to have committed a crime in this country – then try him in this country,” he mother, Julia, tells BBC today. She adds that she believes that her son was “sold down the river” by the government and cautions others to be weary of UK officials siding with pressure from the US. "It's disgusting. Next time it may be your son. I urge everyone who cares about unfair extradition to write to their MP and insist this disreputable law is changed,” adds Ms. O’Dwyer.

A naive British student facing ten years in chains and how our half-witted politicians play poodle to America

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all those making doe will be done , and right fully so ...

im all for downloading the odd few films to watch , but iff your making money out of it , wtf can you expect ... ta tar

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Last week, a Turkish court pressed charges against the Duchess of York for secretly filming in an orphanage, where she uncovered appalling and shaming conditions. If delivered to the court, she could be sentenced to 22 years in jail. No one in their right mind would suggest she should be extradited.The case of Richard O’Dwyer is different inasmuch as he faces a shorter sentence, and the U.S. presumably offers fairer justice and better appointed prisons then Turkey. But though he has committed no crime under British law, he is nonetheless threatened with extradition.
It goes without saying no British Government would dream of dispatching the Duchess of York to Turkey, however cordial our relations may be with that country. Why, then, can Mr O’Dwyer and Mr McKinnon (who was looking for little green men when he hacked into the Pentagon’s computers) be cheerfully dispatched to the U.S.?



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"The answer is that we have uniquely close relations with Washington, which too often become subservient. The Blair administration signed an extradition treaty with the Bush administration that it would not have contemplated entering with any other country in the world.And though that treaty has obviously gone badly wrong — so badly wrong that a man who has committed no crime in this country could end up in a U.S. high-security prison — our Government is so accustomed to bending the knee to America that it dare not do anything to rewrite the treaty, though in truth all Mr Cameron need do is pick up the phone."

cheers to that Brit!

Sheeple can go back to sleep

nothing is happening right now

to them

all by design OP

all by design.

I don't think what he did was right, but if he's not breaking the law in his country I don't see how they could send him to jail.

I wouldn't like it if the situation was reversed, that's for sure.

I wonder that people from Britain is so flat about this
Also that others do not care, what's wrong with this forum???

Speaking before the hearing, Mr O'Dwyer said he was "surprised" when police officers from the UK and America seized equipment at his home in South Yorkshire in November 2010.
However, no criminal charges followed from the UK authorities.

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Obviously they could (anything they want)

Cooper added that the student was a “guinea pig” for copyright law in the US as he would be the first to be extradited for such an offence.

The case echoes that of Gary McKinnon, who Cooper also represents, who has been fighting extradition to the US after he hacked into 97 military and NASA systems in a bid to find out secret information about aliens and UFOs. His case has led to calls to renegotiate the treaty as it is argued that McKinnon, who has Asperger Syndrome, would not receive a fair trial in the US.
However ICE has defended its actions, saying that website owners with .com or .net addresses could face extradition, even if the activity was legal in the UK. It’s reasoning is that the addresses are routed through American internet infrastructure owner Verisign, based in Virginia.

Only if this were a murder charge would the States have any business at all asking for extradition. When did the UK government become a slave to the greedy American media? They're private businesses, not law enforcement and that makes it a civil matter, not a criminal one. They never learn, do they? America should have stayed out of WWII and we wouldn't be putting up with people who'd even charge money to the birds for singing if they could - because most of them can't sing or create any art at all. They just want to own everybody else's.

all this over TELEVISION AND MOVIES....AKA FANTASY. We as humans are absolutely ridiculous. Sending people to rot in cages and ruining their life for sharing shit thats not even real. Im not talking about just this guy, but the whole thing is really absurd if you sit down and think about it.

there used to be a special place called 'Traitor's Gate' for people like Theresa May. I think I was born 200 years too late or too soon, I can't quite decide.

Totally agree!

The entire notion of Intellectual Property is a fucking sham that is bleeding every last bit of genuine creativity and innovation out of our collective culture.