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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? "
I thought we were supposed to send criminals *to* Australia?
US-UK-Israel: The real Axis of Evil
On second thought, I changed my mind. This would be a great precedent.
If it works, let's pass a law making spamming illegal, with harsh penalties, and then demand that everyone extradite thier spammers.
Twenties Retirement
You win the prize for the least relevant digression into highly emotive subject matter.
Warez != Terrosism
An analogue would be attempting to extradite a 419 scammer from Nigeria because they defrauded a North American.
Oh gee, can we?
Twenties Retirement
"Extrudited"? Is that where they squeeze you through a small hole and then send you back home?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Watch out with all of this talk about free speech and democratic ideals, or China might demand your extradition for violating the "Republic's" laws about dissent.
You're in Minnesota. That's instant punishment. If it weren't for their hockey team, it would have been labelled 'Hell' a long time ago.
What about all the below-freezing weather? If Minnesota was Hell, then Hell would have already frozen over, which would mean we would have to get around to implementing IPv6.
"weapons of mass destruction"
;-)
More like "weapons of mass duplication".