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Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition

Posted by Unknown on from the if-jimbo-can't-nobody-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Home Office has confirmed home secretary Theresa May will not block TVShack founder Richard O'Dwyer's U.S. extradition, despite widespread calls for her to do so." It would appear the fate of the tvshack founder is now sealed.

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  1. The War on Youth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah, one more small battle in the War on Youth. Let's see: cameras in the streets, ASBOs, patents that kill new competition, laws against drugs, laws against sharing, laws against resisting arrest, student loans, sugar-laden foods, credit card debt, loss of permanent jobs, the list goes on. The UK and USA lead the world in the War on Youth, which pits the old against the young. Extraditing a couple of "pirates" is just consistent with this theme.

    1. Re:The War on Youth by progician · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Strange thing, but there's truth in this. In an other discussion I was wondering that the current trend in demographics in relation to electorate politics creates a political system that is by nature becomes the enemy of the younger generations, and that is easy to show all over Western Europe. Most of the politicians and the people who vote for them were educated on the expense of the budget, that is, "for free". This generation benefited of the welfare state in every way, health case, job protection, rent control, council housing, cheap mortgage and property prices, so they could cut these services with the line "there ain't such thing as free lunch".

      Ageing population is a real political concern for the under-thirties generation.

    2. Re:The War on Youth by khallow · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Funny how so many social benefits lead to this sort of generational warfare. Education clearly helps the young more while medical care and pensions (especially of the sort that can't be sustained with changing demographics). This is one of the reasons I advocate getting government (well, my government, yours can keeping doing whatever it's doing) out of the entitlement racket.

      Among other things, it stirs rivalry between different segments of the population, young versus old, poor versus wealthy, politically marginalized versus the politically connected, uncredentialed versus the credentialed, etc. How are you going to get society-wide cooperation when so many groups are fighting for their piece of government squeeze?

  2. Swap Richard for Bob Diamond by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bet they don't extradite Bob Diamond for overseeing the fraud of vast amounts of money that may actually have done real damage to US citizens, never mind the UK and the rest of the world.

  3. Re:Time and Place by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I fire a gun from the England border into Scotland and kill someone, you can bet I'll be extradited to Scotland to stand trial for murder.

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  4. Re:Time and Place by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. These people are supposedly guilty of the heinous crime of... copying! Totally worth extraditing someone over, and why not waste taxpayer money doing so? It's not our money!

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  5. Re:Conservative party Minister: so pro USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In America you have the the Republicans, who are the equivalent of our Conservative party, and the Democrats, who are the equivalent of our Conservative party....

  6. Re:Time and Place by Sique · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But only because murder is illegal in England too.

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  7. Absurd by xenobyte · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If a UK citizen can be extradited to the US for breaking US law outside the US while physically never setting foot on US soil, why don't we see people getting extradited to all sorts of countries for breaking their laws while sitting in our homes in our own countries?

    Second, extradition is for serious crimes only. Why wasn't the request squashed as it's only related to a civil matter of copyright infringement, not a criminal offense?

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    1. Re:Absurd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wait, that brings up a thought - why can't Greece extradite Jamie Dimon & Lloyd Blankfein to Greece for their "crimes" at defrauding the country into massive debt? After all, if the US can extradite someone for something as "horrible" as posting *links* to *other sites* that contain copyrighted material, *surely* outright financial fraud ought to be extraditable. :-)

  8. Re:Conservative party Minister: so pro USA by Sique · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So the UK will extradite car driving women to Saudi Arabia, where it's illegal for women to drive, for better oil purchase conditions too?

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  9. Re:Time and Place by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I fire a gun from the England border into Scotland and kill someone, you can bet I'll be extradited to Scotland to stand trial for murder.

    Isn't the slight difference that murder is a crime in both countries, whereas copyright infringement isn't?

    I don't think I've ever heard of anyone being extradited for a civil matter before, although no doubt someone can prove me wrong.

    I have zero personal sympathy for this guy. I read an interview recently in which he said he had spent the GBP140K he had earned from his website on "normal student things" like going to the cinema and buying pizza. Which is such a load of bollocks it's a joke..

    However, he certainly shouldn't be extradited for this. If this had been the other way round, there is no way he would have been extradited from the US to the UK even if he had committed a real, serious crime.

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  10. Re:Time and Place by Dan541 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wait until countries like Pakistan and Iran get in on this. All western women will need to be deported for stoning.

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  11. Scary by Coisiche · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As Dr. Ben Goldacre has just tweeted, "it's the little things like extradition at the behest of a corporation that make you worry the whole world is corrupt".

    I think that ship may have sailed.

  12. I admit, I was wrong ! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First, it was the case of Assange, and now this

    The whole thing reads like as if the government of the United Kingdom has lowered itself to the level of being a servant of Uncle Sam

    I always thought that, Great Britain, ...

    - a place which gave birth to the charter of Magna Carta,

    - a place where the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of round table

    - a place where the Bard (William Shakespeare) produced his world famous plays
     
    ... would be proud of itself
     
    ... would take its own national sovereignty very seriously
     
    ... would never kow tow to anyone, for any reason ...

    After witnessing what transpired in both cases, I have to admit, that I was wrong
     

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