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? "

Comments

Legal or not, deserved.

[Archangle]

He was stealing more than intelectual property. First off, they steal your time trying to trick you into porn sites - earning "click money" themselves - it's not about sharing, it's about luring people and earning money! Their sites are ridden with misleading links and finding contents is extraordinarily hard. Then they steal bandwidth. They don't host on their own sites. They either use free hosting services (what forced using the anti-bot protection from scripted account generation there), they use private people's PCs too. I personally found some warez on my very own FTP in Incoming directory, just because I forgot to set it write-only. And to that, they put people on legal risk - how would Iprove it wasn't me who hosted that warez? That's them who make the net harder to use.

Opinion

[tilleyrw]

Before even reading a word of the article, I will resolutely declare NO!

This is becoming markedly similar to creating a one-gov't world. I'm sure that GWB would like this ... but no one else.