UK Decides Hollywood, US Gov't's Interests More Important Than Own Citizens; Extradites Student For

[Flurry]

Holy effing crap man..

In January, a judge said that the UK could extradite student Richard O'Dwyer to the US to facecriminal copyright infringement charges for the crime of linking to streaming videos hosted elsewhere -- something that had already been found legal in the UK multiple times. This is pretty important, because for it to be criminal infringement, it has to be willful, and if sites that were nearly identical to O'Dwyer's TVShack.net were found legal in his home country, where he lived and where he operated the site, it's difficult to see how there's anything willful at all.

To read more, click here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120313/10132918091/uk-govt-agrees-to-extradite-richard-odwyer-to-us-linking-to-possibly-infringing-stuff.shtml

 

[Evil Eye]

Oh right. That scary story.

There have been a lot of those lately...

 

[The Dragon Master]

They're probably going to appeal to the European Court of Human Right, which in this case I completely agree with. As much as I like Americans, I don't think it's right to extradite someone from our country for something which is legal here.

 

[Flurry]

Something like this could spark a war somehow o.0

 

[Flurry]

Probably between the countries, either that or between smaller groups that reside in the countries.

 

[Flurry]

Yes, although I could be wrong. Especially considering the fact the UK government is willingly allowing this to happen.

 

[The Dragon Master]

Yes, although I could be wrong. Especially considering the fact the UK government is willingly allowing this to happen.

There's been a recent news story about when our PM (meh) went to the US and asked to allow UK courts to deal with this sort of stuff.... He asked! That really gets on my nerves. But then again David Cameron has no backbone