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Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition
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.
Facilitating copyright infringement. The mechanism used is irrelevant, even if the mechanism is something as simple as a link.
So if you do something that is not a crime in your own country, but is in another, yet you never set foot in that country, you can now be extradited? Wouldn't that fall under persecution grounds for asylum? Maybe I should check with the Equadorian Embassy...
You are wrong on a few accounts. First, what he did was a crime in his own country, just that he didn't commit the crime there. And you don't have to set foot in another country, he just have to commit a crime there. A similar situation would be sending a letter bomb from London to someone in New York which explodes there and kills a person. You haven't committed a crime in your own country (UK), but you have done something that is a crime in your own country (murder). You haven't set foot in the USA, but you will be extradited because the effect of your actions took place in the USA.