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Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home

Posted by kdawson on from the no-safe-haven dept.

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.

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  1. Thanks mom and dad. by jbssm · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wanna thank my parents for having me getting born in Europe ... the real Europe, not UK.

  2. Re:Sacrifices by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I do HOPE to mean that DoD release isnt the "Department of Defense"....

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