Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home

An anonymous reader sends us a link to a report in The Age about an Australian resident, who had never set foot in the US and broke US intellectual-property laws in Australia, being extradited to the US to face trial. Hew Raymond Griffiths pleaded guilty in Virginia to overseeing all aspects of the operation of the group Drink Or Die, which cracked copy-protected software and media products and distributed them for free. He faces up to 10 years in a US jail and half a million dollars in fines.

Comments

Re:Why is this news?

[Bob MacSlack]

You'll be hearing shortly from the government of Nigeria. Your comments about their citizens were deemed to be illegal under Nigerian legal code Section 13.43b and you will be extradited to face criminal charges there.

Have a nice day.

Lets just put it this way...

[mwvdlee]

US: All your Australians are belong to us.

Re:Open Source Software

[beanyk]

Somebody should have told this guy about OSS.

Man, are you behind the times; it's been the CIA for years.

Re:He most certainly IS under US jurisdiction

[operagost]

Torture Lite

Thanks for the morning laugh. Torture Lite? A good tickling could be Torture Lite. Maintaining the phpbb code base could be Torture Lite.

Re:He most certainly IS under US jurisdiction

[Drooling Iguana]

I thought you got sent to Australia for breaking British law.

Re:He most certainly IS under US jurisdiction

[StikyPad]

I'm in. Where do US citizens register to vote in this election?

Oh. Well, I just assumed since we're claiming jurisdiction...