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DrinkOrDie Warez Trader to be Extradited to U.S.
femto writes "Hew Raymond Griffiths, alleged to be one of the leaders of the warez group DrinkOrDie, is to be extradited to the United States after losing an appeal. The case is of interest as the appeal was based on the fact that during the offences, alleged to have been committed in the US, the accused did not leave Australia."
"DrinkOrDie is one of the oldest and most sophisticated software pirate groups within the 'Warez' community, which is a loose, global network of Internet pirate gangs."
If these guys don't have eye patches and peg legs I am going to be SO disappointed.
Aarrrrrrrr.
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illegally cracked security codes and reproduced software, games and music worth $US50 million ($71.6 million).
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Griffiths, who is unemployed and lives with his parents, was ordered to pay costs.
The mother, the mother! Why wont someone think of the mother?!
According to the article the guy being extradited is 42 years old, unemployed and lives with his parents.
How did this guy ever come under suspicion of cracking software and posting it on the Net?
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Where do you think Australia came from in the first place? ;)
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There are pirate gangs now? Arrrr, I best be hiding my booty.
If this guy's headed for Federal Prison, that's a good plan.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Judge: So what evidence do you have? Perhaps some incriminating documents?
Prosecution: No.
Judge: Surveillence tapes?
Proescution: Er, no.
Judge: Wiretap?
Prosecution: Not today, your honor, no.
Judge: Well what *do* you have?
Prosecution: Well, it's quite simple. Barring the creation of some kind of hyper-intelligent android (which we shall call EvilHackingPirateScumBot), the man responsible for these reprehensible acts MUST be a human being...
Judge: Go on...
Prosecution: Now, I direct your attention to exhibit A--the defendant. As can be clearly seen, he is in fact a human!
Judge: My God, you're right!
Prosecution: So, from this, we can clearly see that since the man we are after is a human, and the defendant is also a human, then he must have done it!
Judge: You know, you're right! Bailiff, take this man away.
Prosecution: (haha, suckers)
Judge: But you know, I can't help but notice that you're a human as well...
Prosecution: Well, I hardly think...
Judge: I see now, this was all just a ploy! Bailiff, arrest every human in this courtroom, and then throw yourself in a cell...
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If they find him guilty they can always ship him to austrailia ;)
We know what the law is, we just think it is fucked. We don't want to be subject to US law, anymore than I expect citizens of the US want to be subject to Australian law (we should really start extraditing all you bastards who own firearms).
How we know is more important than what we know.
Mate, we're all descendants of convicts. EVERYTHING is legal here.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
Q: Why did Australia get the criminals and the USA get the religious zealots?
A: Australia was allowed to choose first!
You forgot
e) Breasts!
f) CowboyNeal's relatives
Seriously, though, this *is* a political crime -- it's a crime against capitalism. The real problem with the simile is that the perpetrator was not in the country where the crime was committed, unlike what happened to the forced emigrees.
If this guy gets extradited, there's something seriously wrong with world politics. That puts the onus on the indidivual to not break any laws *outside* his own country, which is, of course, impossible. Should one get extradited to the US for publishing info on how to make a pipe bomb? How about making disparaging remarks about a Bush? Or what about posting pornography? That would get you a sentence in China, and depending on the type of pornography, in the US too. How about extraditing you to China for having more than two kids? Of course that's unreasonable, but where do you set the limit?
This is a very slippery slope, and the best thing to do is to not get on it at all. The judges should be smart enough to realise this, and not set the snowball moving.
Regards,
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*Art
So much for being protected by the queen... Now the poor guy will end up in a US Fedral Pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything" -- Josef Stalin
Perhaps they are afraid that the US will invade them if they don't comply?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating