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World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sucks-to-be-him dept.

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? "

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  1. invoke the Patriot Act by Quazi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can't they just call him a terrorist and pull a Saddam Hussein on him? That'll get his ass out of there.

  2. How many of you bought your copy of Photoshop? by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Yeah?

    I thought so.

    I am the ONLY person I know who owns a legitimate copy of PS. I know a LOT of people.

    I don't care about "Right and Wrong" semantics. Fact is, the web would have a lot fewer graphics today without warez pirates. I even bet some of the graphics on Slashdot were originally made on illegal copies of PS. Tell me I'm wrong.


    -FL

  3. Push Post Down 1 by thirdrock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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