US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 13, 2012 @03:56AM from the if-you-can't-stand-the-heat-don't-link-to-the-kitchen dept.

Gimble writes "The BBC reports that UK student Richard O'Dwyer has lost a legal battle to block his extradition to the U.S., where he faces copyright infringement charges for running a file sharing site (ruling). O'Dwyer operated the site 'TV-Shack' from 2007 until 2010, which didn't offer any files itself, but posted links to streams and files hosted elsewhere. O'Dwyer was first arrested in June last year by British police acting on information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The domestic investigation was subsequently dropped, but Mr. O'Dwyer was re-arrested in May on an extradition warrant to face charges in America."

2 of 409 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:His extradition has been granted by ciderbrew · 2012-01-13 04:08 · Score: 0, Troll

It is going that way, and the UK will be just behind. I hope the UK doesn't get Bible Bashed into the middle ages of science too.
Good! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-13 04:25 · Score: 0, Troll

It is long past time we started locking people up who commit crimes in other countries. No more of this "It's legal here" loophole crap.
Finally Change I Can Believe In! I'll probably get modded down for this. So what? You opponents of this are all racist anyway. After all, that's the only reason anyone COULD be opposed to this.