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British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright

Posted by timothy on from the hey-free-trip dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 23-year-old British computer student faces possible extradition to the U.S. for linking to copyrighted content on his website. The student, Richard O'Dwyer, was accused of copyright infringement after setting up the website TV Shack, which had links to thousands of films and tv shows, but did not directly host them."

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  1. Re:Extradite me :) by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/linux-3.0-rc3.tar.bz2

    Linux is copyrighted!!!

  2. Government=Cream? by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 3, Funny

    We've come a long way from the "creme rising to the top" and such in government.

    Are you familiar with the septic tank paradigm for government (and politics in general)?
    The biggest shits always rise to the top...

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    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
    1. Re:Government=Cream? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

      Creme is always rich and thick.

  3. Re:Jurisdiction by lennier · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US controls domains with other country TLDs?

    They use Aircraft Carrier Deployment Protocol for that.

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