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World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon
An anonymous reader writes "An Australian Court will soon determine whether US Law should reign supreme in copyright infringement cases that occur online. According to this article, a decision will be made in two weeks as to whether Hew Raymond Griffiths, also known as "Bandido", will be extradited from Australia to the US for running the warez group DOD. Slashdot has in the past interviewed one of Bandido's co-conspirators in the US, who was sentenced to hard time - but the question is, if Griffiths committed no crime in his home country, should the US be allowed to hijack .au laws? "
Does anyone know if Australia does in fact extradite paople to the US? Oh, well. They're all descended from prisoners anyway
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
The fact is that this guy has broken internationally agreed copyright laws, at the very least. So, the government that he presumably can vote for has traded his "right" to immunity against prosecution for reciprocal rights. I.e. If an US citizen trampled all over an Australian software company's copyrights, then AU would have some hope of extraditing him for trial.
Of course, if it was a US citizen illegally distributing Australian software, that would be just perfectly OK, wouldn't it?
Really, what's the chance of Britain or Australia telling the US to shove off when it wants something?
May we never see th
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