“Pirating” UK Student to be Extradited to the US

Ernesto
March 13, 2012
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Richard O’Dwyer, the UK-based ex-administrator of the video linking website TVShack will be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement charges. Despite public outrage Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition order today. The 23-year-old student has never visited United States, but now faces several years in a US prison.

richard's picture Last year Richard O’Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that carried links to copyrighted TV-shows.

Following his detention in the UK’s largest prison, the site owner fought a looming extradition to the US, but without success.

After a UK judge gave the green light to extradite the student two months ago, Home Secretary Theresa May officially approved the request from US authorities today.

Julia O’Dwyer, Richard’s mother, is severely disappointed with the decision and says that her son has been “sold” to the US. The extradition may disrupt his life for years.

“Today, yet another British citizen is betrayed by the British Government,” she said.

“Richard’s life – his studies, work opportunities, financial security – is being disrupted, for who knows how long, because the UK Government has not introduced the much-needed changes to the extradition law.”

The extradition is controversial because under certain circumstances merely linking to copyright material isn’t an offense in the UK. In 2010, linking website TV-Links was deemed to be a ‘mere conduit’ of information and its admins were acquitted.

In the US recent court rulings are of a totally different kind. There, Richard O’Dwyer faces the same fate as several other operators of linking sites that were recently on trial.

In January, Ninjavideo founder Hana Beshara was sentenced to 22 months in prison followed by 2 years of probation, 500 hours of community service and ordered to repay nearly $210,000. Fellow admin Matthew Smith received 14 months in prison, two years supervised release, and was ordered to pay back just over $172,000.

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I think it is important to mention that he has 14 days to appeal. They probably want all the support they can get.
- Anonymous
  
  I definitely hope so. Although, I’m sure when this was initially posted on TorrentFreak a petition had been signed by thousands of people. I think it’s going to need more than a petition this time.
  - Anonymous
    
    Screw it. Let’s all go to prison in the U.S. At least in prison we’ll know exactly who is watching us while we are on the internet. (YES THERE IS INTERNET IN U.S. PRISONS.)
    - http://twitter.com/SOFIA_ROOSEVELT SOFIA_ROOSEVELT
      
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    - http://profile.yahoo.com/EUPGZPYFYASV642FHMF6OTOP7E Oliver
      
      Thei Internet access is not free and limited to emails that can be censored too. Corrlinks.com is the Federal Bureau of Prison’s provider.
    - Anonymous
      
      I don’t recommend saying that because they might just track your IP address and send you to jail because you asked for it. President Obama has allowed the Republicans to set a goal of over 90% occupancy for prisons in the U.S. for the next twenty years. Their goal is to place non-violent “offenders”, activists and people that believe in freedom of information in prison. This way we’re silenced.
http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

It’s obscene that this person is being extradited to the United States when they never set foot in the United States. It would be like me being extradited from America to the EU just because I used a .eu address.

Sheer insanity at it’s highest level.
- Theresa May sellout
  
  blame : Theresa May
  - price ?
    
    Theresa May sold UK citizen to US lobbyists
    - Guest
      
      theresa may has spiders in her cunt
    - WTF?
      
      Americans, that is if you still wish to call yourself an American, please leave a message on the Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line at 1-202-353-1555 about this. It’s horrible that they’re being allowed to do something like this.
    - http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee
      
      Theresa May, you’ve got to get that sand out of your vagina; it’s making you cranky.
    - Anonymous
      
      Ah you just revealed my worst fear about having sex on the beach. Covered in sand while making out is nasty. Yes penis and vagina sand sex is the worst of the worst and I can’t bare the thought.
    - Have A Nice Trip
      
      The longer the US allows this idiocy to continue, the fewer countries there will be that are safe for a US citizen to travel to. This is not a threat, just an observation based on how humans tend to behave when angered; emotion often overrides logic. I can’t speak of others but I personally wouldn’t do anything to harm US citizens visiting my country (Canada). I’d be seriously tempted to mess with them a little bit at least though lol. Have no fear, all you have to do is reign in your out of control government and all will be well with the world once more.
      
      PS: Oh and please stop sewing our flag on your gear, pretending to be Canadian whenever you travel abroad. You’re starting to give us a bad name with our international neighbors. Not that Harper isn’t doing a bang up job of that already. He probably sews an American flag on all of his gear lol.
    - DisgruntledGrunt
      
      Hm; you do have a point there @have a nice trip … let’s hope a lot of people understand that not every american agrees with what’s going on. I’m pretty sure not everyone in the UK agrees as well. I wonder what they’re gonna do for the next elections after all that shyte. Falsify the results maybe?
  - Anonymous
    
    NO, Blame [b]Tony bLiar[/b]
    - Anonymous
      
      Can the mods please remove my dupe post with the fail tags. I flagged it for you lot to attend to.
  - Anonymous
    
    No, Blame: Tony bLiar
  - Bob13
    
    The “Americans, that is if you still wish to call yourself an American, please leave a message on the Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line at 1-202-353-1555 about this. It’s horrible that they’re being allowed to do something like this.” comment is total &*^%.
    
    The normal American citizen in not the cause for this just like the normal British citizen is not the cause of of Theresa May approving of it.
    - Asdf
      
      Of course but EVERYONE has to take a stand. That’s the point.
    - Marp
      
      Tyranny happens when the ‘normal’ citizens stay silent.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Micah-Madru/100001151887665 Micah Madru
  
  That’s not the obscene part. You can commit a crime remotely and just because you never stepped foot in a place doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be extradited there.
  
  The obscene part is that they even consider him guilty of anything.
  - RemteControl
    
    “commit a crime remotely”
    
    Like flying a DRONE aircraft?
    
    Triggering a “device” by cell phone?
    
    Sending digital “packets”?
    
    Remote Crime? WOW!
    What a great legal concept!
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Micah-Madru/100001151887665 Micah Madru
      
      If I kill someone in california, and i’m in Arizona. Where’s the crime committed at? Under which state laws is the individual punished?
      
      Remote crime might not be the best analogy on my part, but i’m just saying I have a problem with the assumption that you shouldn’t be extradited somewhere that you’ve never stepped foot in.
    - Desu75
      
      You would be extradited to California. They’re the ones doing the murder investigation after all.
    - Rplatypus
      
      @ Micah Madru
      
      When prosecuting a crime, the jurisdiction falls to the municipality of where that crime occured. Richard O’Dwyer, a UK citizen, commited no crime in the UK and if the UK courts rule that he should be brought to trial for a crime, he should be tried in the UK. Not the US. He has never set foot in the US and is not a US citizen. He has no relationship to the US at all.
      
      Your state to state analogy is flawed, it might as well be city to city, or county to county. The UK is a sovereign nation and its citizens should not be expected to know every law of every country that it happens to have an extradition treaty with. It’s hard enough, if not impossible to know your own countries laws.
      
      As an American citizen, this situation disgusts me. If I was a UK citizen, I would consider this an affront to my rights as a citizen. This is a very slippery slope we are falling under. Who knows, anyone of us could be shipped off to a Guatamalan prison for the next 2 years for using a brand of toothpaste that is deemed illegal in that country if this is the path we are on.
    - O’lay Pirate
      
      Micah Madru, no matter how much I love your comparison to murder and piracy… you’ve got to understand that extradition was made for murderers/rapists… they can’t extridite wikileaks founder yet they can extridite someone purely on the basis of copyright infringements… pathetic.
    - Anonymous
      
      @Rplatypus Indeed and if he has no relationship with the US, he shouldn’t be sent there and stand trail in the UK, and if it isn’t an offence in the UK, he shouldn’t waste courts time and the US can FOAD.
  - IFUXXSYSTEMS
    
    I smell a military fag
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Micah-Madru/100001151887665 Micah Madru
      
      Your sense of smell is very off then.
    - Guest
      
      Most militaries will stick to their oath and joint the citizen against an unlawful federal government.
    - Anon
      
      Move your nose away from your knob then namefag
  - 27B2EB7D
    
    Following that line of reasoning, blaspheme against Mohammad or Allah could have you extradited to, say, Saudi Arabia, where you could well be executed for such a crime.
    
    Just because certain laws see their existence backed by a country doesn’t make them in any way sane let alone legit, neither should it mean that anyone should be held accountable to some made-up parody of a legal system.
    - Garythepairy
      
      you’re forgetting about extradition treaties. The us and uk have an agreement. Neither have agreements with saudi arabia. So, yeah.
    - Danny
      
      @Garytheepairy
      
      This extradition treaty was set up to counter terrorism what the fuck is it now being used for??? Propping up some old business model that has failed.
  - Morpheusxxz
    
    I consider governments bombing innocent peoples on some other land a “remote crime”.
  - Alaxfreak
    
    It doesnt make sense. In the UK, linking video isnt a crime, but in the US, it is. Does this mean US laws are above UK laws? Its basically making UK a 51st state, their “state”(UK) law is defeated by the “federal”(US law.
    - OMGWTFBBQ
      
      I agree. Let it be clear that as of today, the UK no longer exists as a country. But that it is now a part of the USA. D34th to Theresa May!
    - Mike
      
      It is a crime in the UK – it’s just not a crime that any judge will convict you for.
    - Anonymous
      
      Pretty sure you’re way off the mark here.
  - Anonymous
    
    Faulty reasoning. Every country has it’s own laws for a reason. I bet you have committed a ton of crimes against many of the Arab/Muslim nations. Do you expect to be extradited to each country for breaking their laws, although you have no knowledge of those laws, nor were you in the country when they were purportedly committed. And to make matters more fun, a lot of those laws come with a death penalty. AND, how often does the United States extradite one of it’s own citizens for murder, let alone running a link site or cyberlocker?
    
    I agree that it’s a shame that they consider him guilty of anything. I’m afraid to shit in case i break a US law……. I’ve never studied their laws and it could be in the books somewhere….
    - Guest
      
      Micah Madru you are missing the point. For someone to be extradited to the US this person need to have committed a crime while in the US then flew in another country.
      
      Attempting to apply the US law abroad is a clear violation of the US constitution.
      
      There is no way way to deny the sad fact that our government is now in the hand of criminals.
      
      Citizen! We have some serious cleanup to do! Let’s rally the troop.
    - Jamesamyx
      
      Its a little off the mark. This guy did knowingly pirate copyrighted content. Should he be dragged to the US, I dont think so. To all of you who say we need to stand up to the American government over this fascist crap, Americans are trying to but we get beat back by a media that loves tyranny as long as Obama is in charge of it and most of you probably love him and his minions as well.
  - FranklinRosevelt
    
    No this is also an obscene part. This is actually criminal.
    The US constitution forbid the enforcement of US law on foreign soil.
    
    Last time I checked UK was not part of the union.
- Anonymous
  
  He should feel lucky Obama didn’t just sign the order for his summery execution. now he will just be shipped off to some rat hole place nobody ever heard of with no jurisdiction. I suppose the mainstream stupids will continue to recognize these illegitimate authorities and it will make us safer because don’t you know we need to be afraid of men with beards and weapons of mass deception etc. You live in a dictatorship do you honestly believe that the anthrax thing and 9/11 weren’t just a fascist coupe to get people to fear for their kids and hand over the rights they never fully understood or appreciated in the first place? Wars are profitable! Copyright is profitable! Are you just surprised that now instead of exploiting a third world slum country they are doing it to you in America and England now. Read George Orwell’s 1984 and you will find that most of the fascist themes predicted in 1948 are coming true it just took a little longer. Pretty soon your own children will think nothing of turning you in to the thought police…just saying
- FBI RATS
  
  There are some countrys where you get the death penalty for being gay. in all fairness shouldn’t we deport all gays to satisfy these countries. im a uk citizen. it appears that i have to follow US law before my countries laws. what the fuck is that
  - vurp0
    
    Don’t you know how it works? US law applies everywhere in the world, but they don’t have to follow any other law.
- grizzly
  
  Not really since that chance is 0 because the agreement between us,uk on this is extreamly one sided.
  meaning uk have to send over everone the us wants but the other way around is almost impossible and the person probably needs to be a murderer to be sent to the uk but even that may not be enough.
  - Anonymous
    
    The U.K. *doesn’t* have to send someone over for this, their politicians are just as corrupt as any though. They’re being pushed by U.S. lobbyists, but if they had a conscience or any care for their own law, they’d tell them to fuck off. Don’t go putting all of this on America. The lobbyists are completely out of control here, but it’s the U.K. who is betraying their own citizens.
- Spidermansays
  
  blame richard odwyer.
- http://www.moviein3d.net Caitlin
  
  Not stealing US owned copyrighted movies in the first place would have helped him, he made his money off other people’s work, and now it is time to face the music with Mr DotCom.
  - Anonymous
    
    What exactly are you doing here, troll?
  - Anon
    
    get back to the kitchen and leave the thinking to us adults.
    - Anonymous
      
      Caitlin is wrong, but you could barely have undermined yourself more in your own argument against her.
  - Anonymous
    
    He didn’t steal a thing. What he did is the equivalent of standing on a road and holding a sign that says “There are some people behind that building selling marijuana.”
- Cmrshll2
  
  just another sign that all our freedoms are being taken away perhaps we should call it the united states of the world because they seem to think they can tell everyone else what to do also sites like the pirate bay have turned me on to so much music i would never have found long may they continue. we keep getting bombarded with ad,s for super fast broadband why do i want that just to open a fucking email if they block access to tpb they can shove there broadband up there arse why pay for something if you can’t use it. long live the pirate bay.
  - Anonymous
    
    Blame your own country for you losing freedoms. The U.K. government officials are corrupt as fuck, and they’re just folding to our corrupt government. The U.K. could have said “No, he didn’t commit a crime, you can’t have him.” and there is nothing the U.S. lobbyists could do to change that. Instead the U.K. folded to big media pressure and decided to sell one of their citizens. The U.K. needs to stand up for themselves while we here in the U.S. try to fix our fucked up country.
    - A Ihegbu
      
      Actually it would be realistically impossible for us to resist against the US. Sweden tried for like, 5 years straight and failed with the Pirate Bay. Why? Because America threatened trade embargoes, a NATO economic penalty and a host of other nasty country crippling stuff.
- Anon
  
  If ur so pissed off why not complaint for this here http://www.tmay.co.uk/contact and to your mp’s if this dont work start a raly it worked in Poland several times now.
- Kidwell Christopher
  
  Chill out – he’s getting a free trip to the US! It’s like they’re paying him to take a vacation, housed in a secure “hotel”.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay
  
  It’s weird and ironic that you have a kid who is being persecuted for linking.
  
  When Britain did that, the US called it an Intolerable Act.
  
  Now we’re returning the favor on the innocent. And Obama is doing nothing about it.
  - Anonymous
    
    That is because Obama is controlled by lobbyists. The man doesn’t have an opinion of his own. It belongs to whomever has the most money.
- Theavatarofblue
  
  I don’t agree with the extradition, I really don’t.
  I think your reasoning is wrong though. If an American citizen on US soil were to fraudulently swindle you out of money (via bank wire or paypal), wouldn’t you want him to be extradited to your home country to answer for his crimes? Or should he get a free pass, because he wasn’t on British soil when the crime was committed?
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YCA2INBZXVFVMVXTL3YKRJDZK4 Sleevey
    
    but you wouldn’t need to be extradited. Fraud is a crime in the US and so you could just be prosecuted there. The point is that what the kid was doing isn’t illegal in the UK, where he did it. He is being extradited to somewhere where it IS illegal so he can be prosecuted.
    That’s how I understood it anyway
  - Anon
    
    He wouldn’t get a free pass though would he? America has their own laws regarding fraud that would apply to a citizen even if his victim is in another sovereign country.
- Anonymous
  
  It’s not just Theresa May, it’s the RIAA’s influence across the globe. Basically Hollywood owns all copy-righted materials, according to themselves… It’s because of this logic that they stole data from users across the world and sold it to the U.S. for prosecution. The RIAA sees it as “well we own Hollywood, therefore we own all copyrighted materials worldwide and we have the right to block all countries from seeing Hollywood movies if we want to as well”…. at least that’s what I’ve come to understand.
  
  http://www.zeropaid.com/news/5099/riaa_submits_international_piracy_report_to_us_government/
- Seanemone
  
  Are you all dumbasses? It doesn’t matter if he’s breaking the law of a country he isn’t in, if he’s openly hurting people FROM another country. These people saying “The US should send women drivers to Saudi Arabia” are completely retarded. A better analogy would be to say that someone with a magical sniper gun that can shoot forever, is sitting in the UK and he is sniping US citizens. That’s the logic being used here. He’s stealing from US companies and clearly the UK agrees, fucking stupid kids on this website.
  
  With that said, I am in full support of anyone that pirates, since I actually believe that US hollywood and entertainment companies steal from it’s own citizens in an extreme way. Anyone that pirates should be untouched, because the RIAA are the real pirates.
- Anonymous
  
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Jigoku

Well, at the very least… i hope Theresa May gets a visit from Anonymous.

Absolutely sickening how US law applies to sovereign countries, such as the UK, where the US has absolutely NO jurisdiction. As every day goes by i find myself becoming more anti-american by the hour.

Crazy world ran by a bunch of nutters.

Meanwhile, a bunch of drunk US troops has massacred civilians in afghanistan, and the suspects are not even being put through an afghan court. It seems if you commit a “crime” (the TVShack accusation) against the american’s pathetic legal system you will be extradited even if said “crime” is legal in your country. We have americans murdering innocent families in afghanistan, they commit the crime ON afghan soil, yet they do not end up in an afghan court?

This is the reality… America and it’s “do as we say, but not as we do” policy. It’s a one way system. they think they control the whole damned world.

It’s about time someone stands up and says “FUCK YOU AMERICA” we’ve had enough of your double standards and hypocrisy.
- Zbklhmpp
  
  No…. I hope she gets a visit in her house from an angry mob, and the mob breaks her bones. Because what she did right now is destroy a young man’s life.
  
  I hope you spend all the bribe money you got, on doctors and hospitals, you sad and pathetic excuse for a Home Secretary.
  - Traitors
    
    There’s far more than one person making these decisions. You should be going after the whole government as they’re all complicit. Theresa May ain’t no different from that other cunt, Jacqui Smith, they had there last.
- Dan
  
  Yeah.
  
  The USA have been the big brother to nations world-wide for the past century, but in recent decades, they act more like a badly behaved schoolyard bully.
  - me
    
    Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Maybe the US had too much power too long a time, and it was inevitable that it eventually morphed into the bully state it has become today?
    
    Anyway. Let’s not blame the US for this. It was the Brits who changed their own laws to extradite their own citizens to the US even if they never set foot on US soil for the simple act of copying a file, or even less pointing to the location where a file could be found. If at all, they’re the one to blame for having thrown UK’s sovereignty to the wolves, and having enacted totally insane laws. The US may have pressured them to do so, but at the end of the day, it was the UK that allowed itself to implement this insane law.
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/EUPGZPYFYASV642FHMF6OTOP7E Oliver
      
      You need to be German and run such site in Germany and you are safe from extradition as long you remain in Germany.
      
      I am surprised that the E.U. has not considered protections for E.U. citizens. I am sure he will be able to appeal to the High Court and maybe even to the E.U. courts. Still, why is he still in prison? Polanski fucking raped a little girl and was out and Assange is still under house arrest. I am sure he will be next because the U.S. will claim copyright on the wikileaks documents and get him that way.
    - Anyone
      
      that might be only true for german citizen
    - Anonymous
      
      The power itself isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that it’s ignored and overridden by the rich… it’s because in the last 80 years the U.S. government has decided that the Constitution no longer applies as it offends the religious right-wing, child fucking, woman repressing bastards that run this country. Money speaks louder than words- which is what our government gladly used so these pieces of shit can made amendments to our basic rights, essentially raping them from us. This is why half of Americans live at poverty level or lower… This is why the prison system is so full that states are going bankrupt. This is why you go to jail for 8 years in the U.S. for making bath salts (even before the bath salt became illegal in Utah).
      
      The people themselves have no control over this country as we have no money. This has been a major goal since the 1970′s. This is why we are price gouged on every item, whether it’s insurance, food, gas (in case if you didn’t notice the spikes aren’t because of Iran like the news tells since we don’t get any oil from there) rent or clothing…
      
      We live in a police state that’s full of propaganda and brain washing. The only way it’s going to stop is if the poor, the almost 50% of us, take the Revolution seriously. Without sponsors that are rich, we’re SOL since it costs a shit ton of money to override a government like this one. This is a fascist country that needs to turn to social democracy immediately.
- http://twitter.com/SpitefulBlonde Zwan
  
  UK has no money lol.
  
  UK best friends with USA now they have none.
  - Anonymous
    
    US debt…
    http://www.usdebtclock.org/
    $15.5 trillion total, $49,493 per citizen, $136,940 per taxpayer.
    
    UK debt…
    http://cluaran.free.fr/debt.html
    $1,57 trillion total, $25,122 per citizen, $53,401 per taxpayer.
    
    I would say that the United States is the poorer country but things are more complex than just debt. Well the US do own 22% of the world’s debt for only 5% of the population. Then the UK is a couple of years ahead in tackling their debt problem and have a realistic plan.
    - Class War
      
      Realistic plan? There’s no realistic plan, there’s just a knee-jerk ultra-rightist landgrab for what remains of the public sector at the expense of the working and middle classes. The NHS is being sold off as are other services like Policing and the private sector companies who will end up getting the lucrative contracts will all be cronies of the politicans (as usual).
      
      The UKs deficit was actually running at a historical low when compared to the records going back four or five hundred years. The government talk of lowering public spending is just bullshit spin designed to convince a possibly violent public that the massive cuts and consequent bottomless pit of economic recession leading to the worst unemployment since Thatcher are all necessary. The trouble is, if you totally cut all spending (as the Tory scum are doing right now), then the economy stalls and shrinks leading to fewer taxpayers paying off the national debt and an increase in defecit – the complete opposite of what they claim to be attempting. It’s simple economics.
      
      You see, the problem with putting rich people (like, say, the Eton toffs that Cameron/Clegg are) in charge of a national budget is that they’ll completely screw it up. Rich people don’t know HOW to budget because they’ve never had to! But then, they’re too rich to care about the likes of you and me.
      
      Don’t be fooled for a minute. This is Class War and when the money and food run out, we WILL eat the rich.
- Boltie
  
  Who is she to decide this anyway? Cabinet ministers are never suited to the job they’re given. Does she know the law quite well and understand the case against him? She probably thinks she does but doesn’t.
  - Class War
    
    She doesn’t care, as long as she’s getting a nice big fat back-hander. Dodgy corrupt politicians…
    - FBI RATS
      
      Its sad to say but your right… Budget Cuts are the UK’s plan? How about breaking up that monopoly TESCO. 31% market share on grocery market alone. They are draining this country dry like a leach. Now they are getting people to work for free and expanding into cornershops, insurance, banking, mobile phones, own brand food, petrol, clothing, every possible area. Yet nobody in the goverment cares. FUCK THE SELLOUTS ON THIS PLANET
  - Rdm
    
    Politicians are never the right people for the job because the clever people go into higher paying jobs.
- Spitss
  
  China’s time will soon come.
Sucks

That Sucks
Luckyd2039

I honestly think it is time for another American Revolution.
- Anonymous
  
  Sadly, even believing this makes you a terrorist. :(
  - Class War
    
    Sadly, even being on the internet makes you a terrorist now.
    - Pirate
      
      I much prefer the title of pirate.
  - Fighter
    
    Good. Let them know that you are a potential threat.
    - Fighter
      
      …as that’s what’s necessary to keep them in line.
  - Bloaxor
    
    We’ll see how they’ll handle thousands (probably much, much more) of “terrorists” once that time comes.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin
  
  We’ve seen two main strings in this thread.
  One is anti US government for hypocrisy, eg no Afghan trial for US soldier murdering civilians in Kandahar, but US led raids against Megaupload etc.
  The other is the unfairness of the UK side of the UK/US extradition treaty.
  
  The former pisses off VAST numbers of people worldwide and will slowly erode the remaining US goodwill outside its frontiers so that there will be no more ‘coalitions of the willing’ to help fight US wars etc. (Outside the file sharing community, lots of people have not yet noticed how corrupt the US government is).
  
  The latter REALLY pisses off us Brits. Eventually, a British government will either abrogate the extradition treaty so we revert to the reasonably fair pre 2003 treaty – which the US follows. Or there will be rioting that will make last summer’s little disturbances look like a vicarage tea party… and then the treaty will be abrogated. The rioting will of course also be about the rich getting richer while the poor are trampled on by the law and all the other unfair aspects of British life today. I don’t actually welcome this, I’d far rather the ‘establishment’ would listen to ordinary folk and treat them fairly. But being realistic, they won’t do that until they forced to.
Jigsy

Fuck America.

Fuck the United Kingdom.
- Electa
  
  + FUCK MPAA and RIAA
Martimos

British justice sucking US dicks :)))
http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

What happens after the sentence is over? Do they leave him there or does he get sent back?
- Caturday
  
  HA!
  2 years and 22 months probation.
  -So, I can’t leave America for 22 months?
  That’s right?
  -Can I get a job to support myself?
  No, you’re an immigrant with a criminal record.
  -So, am I kicked out and sent back home?
  That’s the standard policy. But you’ll be arrested at the airport for violating your parole… AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
Assmunch

You may feel pretty smug right now all of you MAFIAA guys, after all you closed MU for no good reason and now you get to punish some random guy who broke no laws by ruining his life to prove a point.
I am sure your bank managers are already rubbing their hands together in anticipation of all this extra money that’s about to come flooding in as your efforts result in a drop in piracy but guess what….I will have the last laugh here.
From this day forwards I will NEVER spend another penny on your products, I will pirate every movie and TV show that I ever watch.
I will no longer go by my old method of if I liked something I would buy it, I will pirate 100% of everything no matter how awesome it is or how much effort went into it or what you say the consequences are. My netflix is cancelled, my tv package too (I never use it anyway). I would hope others do the same but if they do not, that is of no consequence to me, none of my money will ever again reach your hands to be misused in such a way.
So of course you will call me a thief, pirate or a criminal or whatever word you decide currently has the most impact but as the law is no object to you, it shall be no object to me also.
- Anyone
  
  welcome to the club
  
  we got cookies
- Guest
  
  But buying from indies is ok. Actually there is quite a lot of indie content. Let’s make that a statement, actually. If an artist wants our money, it shall not go to hollywood.
  - guest
    
    I buy only movies not made in the USA
- Spankyjane8
  
  A lot of folks are already doing that very same thing, the problem is a lot of the items that say made in the USA are made in the USA but all the components it takes to make most of those items are made some where else.
  
  Frankly I think its bull$H!# to extradite that young boy for something that I believe should not even be a crime. And I pray he wins in every aspect.
Anonymous

to me, what this shows more than anything is just how gutless this UK government is in general and Cameron in particular! when something is done in this country and deemed legal, how the hell can any government overturn it’s own laws to comply with the laws of another country? we may just as well scrap our laws and be ruled by the US courts! what is more worrying is, which country is going to be next to demand a UK citizen be extradited and for what ‘crime’? and would any country, including the US send any person to the UK for trial? no chance!
- Gae
  
  It is easy to blame our government and of course they do hold some blame, but then look what happens to countries that defy the US such as Spain, they get threatened with economic ruin if they do not implement the laws that the US demands.
  
  Still it can’t do any harm to send out a letter to Theresa May explaining to her why you will not be voting for her party at the next election, as I will be doing.
  - Jay Jayson
    
    I don’t want to be rude to the Spaniards but… Their country already are in economic ruin, together with Portugal and Italy their economy is well and beyond “Screwed”.
    
    So that shouldn’t really be an issue.
    
    IF it was an economical issue, then Spain would not be in the position they are in at the moment, (not quite Greece in any of those countries…yet.) all leading independent economists in the EU agrees on state of Spain’s finances.
    
    As for the UK turning the hole to the US and spreads them…What is new here?
    
    You (England) just should have made peace in Europe and went over to the “new promised land” and smashed that rebellion with full force and then this wouldn’t been an issue.
    
    The colonize becomes the colonizers; much like the hunter becomes the hunted for lack of resolve.
  - IFUXXSYSTEMS
    
    Is there Anthrax in the letter?
    We would probably just kill her maids/secretaries…
PoPo

Note to self …

If website is seized DO NOT create new website with

FUCK THE POLICE logo/link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M8vei3L0L8
Mouse

and they wonder why people fly airplanes into their buildings
- Anyone
  
  it’s about time for that again
  - Kamikaze
    
    White House here we go
  - Tom
    
    @Anyone
    “it’s about time for that again”
    
    You have sunken to a new low that I imagined not even you could go. Ah well, a few thousand lives lost is worth it so that pirates can continue to illegally distribute and download US created media without the US having any right what so ever to do something about it.
    - Guest
      
      You’re right. Attacking innocents is never an option. Whatever the circumstances.
      
      However, you’re wrong that this is about piracy and distributing media. This is about fundamental rights and freedom. The anger over the extradition has absolutely nothing to do with piracy.
    - Anyone
      
      hopefully this time they choose an uglier building, I liked the world trade center, it looked good.
      
      but when you compare for how much death the US is responsible around the world a few thousand dead americans is nothing.
      for example if ACTA passes it will kill thousands of people in africa because they are no longer able to get cheap medicine
    - Tom
      
      Attacking anyone should never be an option. I’m not happy about the decision either but some of the stuff being said on this forum is beyond insane.
    - Morpheusxxz
      
      Why not choose a better building where all these evil butts gather to celebrate their victory over innocents?
    - Danny
      
      You what?
      
      This guy never illegally distributed anything. He has broken absolutely no laws. He is an innocent being extridited by an unjust law by a fucked up government. I do not agree with blowing up buildings but I agree less with the MAFIAAs accusations of any actual damage to their profits that so called ‘piracy’ has done.
    - FBI RATS
      
      Who fucking cares if they lost their lives or if someone joked about it. People die all the time. You will die one day, so will I. Then none of it will matter because you wont exist anymore.. erm, sorry abit harsh.
- FBI RATS
  
  “and they wonder why people fly airplanes into their buildings”
  Planes can be piloted by remote control. I Believe the USA attacked itself. Its very possible..
  - kaas
    
    Ahahaha…
    AhaHAhahaha…
    hah..
    heh
SergentSlaughter

In other news: I’m being extradited to jail in North Korea for bashing communism on my blog. Apparently it is illegal there to criticize the government…. So I’m going to jail for violating North Korean law in Europe.
- Gae
  
  Don’t forget to stop by Dubai on the way as I believe you are guilty of kissing in public.
  - Anyone
    
    or driving, if you are a woman
    or was that some other country in that region?
    - Rick Santorum
      
      Saudi Arabia.
      
      Which the US loves.
    - Anyone
      
      time to move all american women with a driver’s licence there to get a beating with sticks (or whatever the punishment is)
    - guest
      
      @Anyone ooh sounds kinky. ;)
      US is just over doing it.. if I had the man power and the money I would as soon be marching out of the u.s. and buying,living in some private island in the pacific.
- Caturday
  
  Did you hear about all the Canadian 19 year-olds being extradited to America for under age drinking?
  
  Sure it’s legal in Canada but… wait, that wouldn’t happen because there’s corporation that would make money by bribing government officials to throw out a citizen’s rights for that.
- Garythepairy
  
  extradition treaties…nobody has one with NK except china (with limits)
Patrick van Coeverden

And all Dutch people are extradicted for smoking pot, gay marriage and ‘illegal’ abortion.

The UK judges should be shot for not acknowledging the sovereignty of the UK.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin
  
  It’s not actually the judges’ fault. The way the treaty reads is that the US has only to swear to a good faith suspicion that the accused broke a US law. Blame Tony Bliar for ratifying the treaty and Gauleiter May for enforcing it.
Anonymous

This is hardcore stuff. The obscene violation of laws, reason and common standards is picking up pace so fast it’s getting really scary. I live in Finland and although things are relatively ok here these things trouble me more and more by the day. The need to do something grows constantly but there are no effective ways to channel it – atleast that I’m aware of.

What the UK government dead is treason – at least that was the term used for finnish politicians who extradites a few dozen jews to germans during Hitlers reign. A scenario that shouldn’t be anyway comparable to this but actually has similar characteristics.

I think people with access to media should call out a wholesale boycott of americans and their products, a more extreme version of the Black March. It wouldn’t hurt to really make the US citizens think before their elections. As for us we need politicians with a spine. If the spanish are being excluded from US trade they will be better off than many others. Freedom should never be sold.
- Anyone
  
  the problem is that most news organizations are owned by exactly the companies that bribe the politicians and judges to do this
  
  so this won’t get any news :(
  
  there is no free press anymore
  - Anonymous
    
    i think that should be changed to ‘no honest reporting any more’
RIAAtarded

someone with the power to honestly make a fight of this needs to stand up for this poor kid. Not only is an abuse of process but what he is accused of isn’t even a crime in his country and he has never set foot in the country where it is. Why should other countries be even allowed to be heard on this issue in the first place. If it doesn’t exist as a law in your nation that should be the end of it. What does this say about our country’s sovereign rights of self rule? or our obligation to protect our own citizens? This extradition treaty was a fearful knee jerk reaction to the events of 9/11 and as sad as it was we do the victims memories a serious disservice allowing the creation of laws and erosion of freedom in their name. Intelligence should fuel change not fear and freedoms hard fought for shouldn’t be tossed aside. Time for change guys the companies have forgot we are their consumers, government forgets they work for us. I think a reminder is in order.
Impeach His Ass

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!!!

A ray of sunshine…

Obama impeachment bill now in congress!!!!

There is a media blackout of this and it is THE most important story happening in America right now…big surprise right? I searched google for news stories earlier today and google returned ZERO results! Now, google is returning unrelated links.

The impeachment bill was started by Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina and it is gaining momentum.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-impeachment-bill-now-in-congress/?cat_orig=us
- Anonymous
  
  Looks like Obama is trying to bypass Congress in a lot of matters then. Cough, ACTA, cough.
  
  Well we are into election year so little would surprise me. I am currently doubtful though if they would get enough support to impeach him. I would be more afraid if Joe Biden takes over power.
Anonymous

What is most freaky here is that for Richard O’Dwyer to be extradited then he must have broke a serious law in the UK. Considering how many past linking site owners have been found innocent then all signs currently point to “no”

This first butt hole Judge simply said his site varied from past cases slightly because he allowed users to create accounts. That is a very weak reason to grant extradition when evidence still says innocent. If that is doubted then clearly a trial should be held here to prove if he is innocent or guilty.

What we have now is the UK Government risking breaking the law. All it takes is one other UK linking site that also uses accounts to be found innocent at trial to prove that the due extradition of Richard O’Dwyer is unlawful.

Anyway Richard now has 14 days to appeal the extradition or the UK Government will really throw one of their citizens to the wolves. It would not be the first time.
- Anon
  
  Laws don’t apply to governments.
  - Danny
    
    They do here in the UK. You are thinking about the corrupt US government or any other dictatorship.
http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

This, from Wikipedia, seems plain enough:

“Bars to extradition

By enacting laws or concluding treaties or agreements, countries determine the conditions under which they may entertain or deny extradition requests. Common bars to extradition include:

Failure to fulfill dual criminality – generally the act for which extradition is sought must constitute a crime punishable by some minimum penalty in both the requesting and the requested parties.”

This seems more like rendition **, and the treaty between the UK and US (implemented by Blair on ‘anti-terrorist’ grounds!) clearly needs to be torn up.

** “Where extradition is compelled by laws, such as among sub-national jurisdictions, the concept may be known more generally as rendition”
- Guest
  
  “This seems more like rendition **, and the treaty between the UK and US (implemented by Blair on ‘anti-terrorist’ grounds!) clearly needs to be torn up.”
  
  When these anti-terrorist treaties were made, we warned the people: yes, terrorism is bad, but what if these treaties are used against people like you and me in the future? “Don’t be silly,” they said, “such things only happen in dystopian movies.” And now we see a 23-year-old healthy member of society disappear to the US, for an alleged offense that’s not even a crime. Mission accomplished. We got him. And who’s next tomorrow? Me? You? Oh, right, these things will never happen… don’t be silly.
ACTA_FOOL

FOR ALL CANADIANS BETTER READ THIS! We are going to have it worse then Americans.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/con…

The Bill C-11 committee has just opened the clause-by-clause review of the copyright bill with 39 amendments on the table: 8 from the goverment, 17 from the NDP, and 14 from the Liberals. The good news is that the misinformation campaign on issues such as fair dealing, user generated content, consumer provisions, statutory damages, and Internet provider liability has largely failed as the government is not proposing significant changes to those provisions. These all represent good compromise positions that will likely remain intact.

Unfortunately, the digital lock provisions will also remain largely unchanged as the government is not proposing to link circumvention to copyright infringement (both the NDP and Liberals will put forward such amendments). The music and movie lobby are getting one of their demands as the enabler provision will be expanded from targeting sites “primarily designed” to enable infringement to providing a service primarily for the purpose of enabling acts of infringement. The CIMA demand for an even broader rule has been rejected as has calls to add statutory damages to the provision.

A summary of some of the proposed amendments, by party (note: subject to possible change should a party decide not to introduce the amendment):

Conservatives

change enabler provision to providing a service primarily for the purpose of enabling acts of infringement

a slight tightening of the private purposes copying exception and the time shifting exception by limiting to the specific individual

a new limitation on computer interoperability exception that restricts the use or disclosure of the information reproduced for the purposes of making the programs interoperable

a new limitation on disclosure of security flaws that requires advance notice to the copyright owner unless it is in the public interest to have it disclosed without such notice

a change to the network provider safe harbour that allows for extraction of meta-data

a limitation on the injunction power against information location tool providers

Everyone welcome Canada soon to all this mayhem and future headlines news on Torrent Freak.

BTW WE NEED TO PROTEST FOR THIS GUY FREE HIM NOW!!!!
Blah

US citizen here. All I can say is Im sorry to the world. Further more this is so fucking wrong, on so many different levels.
Alyssa Blindy

That’s so wrong, in my view.
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Guest

There is an interesting article which mentions this student

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2012/feb/23/us-broken-promise-yunus-rahmatullah
- Anonymous
  
  Now that is a new low for the United States.
  
  So now the US defies not only a British court order but they also break their promise to return this prisoner on request.
  
  This has clearly become political being election year. The US already agreed to release this prisoner 2 years ago and Pakistan is keen to have him back.
  
  They do not release him due to human rights violations and the US & UK breaking the Geneva convention. In other words this is one key witness who will testify at future criminal court cases to convict those responsible.
  
  I think little more can be truly disgusting than to hold a man prisoner because they are too ashamed to let him go.
Colin Ferguson69

American state of mind at its finnest.

They wonder why people hate them , this is a prime example of thereepic fail justice system.

The guy may be wrong in what he has done (although my personal views dont condem what he has done , $$$$$$$$$$ industries constantly rip us off)

OK take the guy to trial but for God sake keep him here to be delt with.

GOD THIS ANGERS ME !!!!!

Americans are just laughing at us by even suggesting extradition !!!
Soti

If the U.K has balls they will not extradited the boys to the US, if they do it will be a sign of weakniss that you cannot protect you’re own people for human rights.
Guest

As a American. I really wish Europe would stop being American’s Bitch. Besides What is America going to do if you refuse. Hell in next 20 years are Super Power days are going be over. And the sooner that happens the better.
- Anonymous
  
  I like how they harp on about the special US/UK relationship. That to me these days seems more like an uncle going into a preteen child’s bedroom to give them a good buggering.
  - Danny
    
    Very much so.
    
    I think cameron is currently taking one from obama, a little how clegg does every day.
  - Ralph Brubaker
    
    Sounds like you’ve spent a lot of time imagining the later part of your post.
    
    Get a life.
    - Anonymous
      
      My description may have been graphic but I believe it accurately reflects the “special” relationship that the US gives to the UK. The USA are like an old family member who we are supported to much welcome and trust and yet they have some very shameful plans for their own gratification.
      
      Expressing this in such a graphic form well reflects exactly what I mean. It is totally shameful and unacceptable and yet here we are.
FrodoBaggins

Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police!
Hobbits on Patrol!
Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police!
Hobbits on Patrol!
Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police!
Hobbits on Patrol!
Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police! Fuck the Police!
Hobbits on Patrol!
Xxxxx

despite which side your on you have to admit braking some else’s laws in your own sovereign country which the law you’ve broken isn’t a actual law only to find the people who are meant to protect your rights decide to play along with their vile schemes.

what kind of world is this ?
- Giggaflop
  
  ???
anon

This action from the UK to send Richard O’Dwyer to the USA makes me sick. When did it become a crime to link, should all sharing buttons be deactivated on all sites across the internet?
The only reason the internet is alive is due to linking, linking is not a crime and if it was well get ready the USA should start asking ever one on facebook twitter google+ and any other social network to be extradited to the USA to face charges for sharing a link. The prisons and the court system will be pretty packed lets see them deal with all that and go even more broke and in debt.
http://www.facebook.com/edward.mayes1 Edward Mayes

just proves justice is blind only if you got the money to distract her…
dirty slut
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http://www.facebook.com/edward.mayes1 Edward Mayes

(a) Criminal Infringement.—
(1) In general.— Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed—
(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180–day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.

no where does it say providing a link is infringement, but dont let that stop rimpaa-holes
- Anonymous
  
  It also states the word “wilfully”. Considering how many past website owners were found innocent then why would Richard think he was doing anything wrong to be a wilful act?
  
  Also since he was only linking then there is no direct infringement where best he could be charged with helping others to infringe, The problem there though is that TVShack users would need to be charged with criminal copyright infringement for Richard to be charged as an accessory where that so won’t happen.
  
  So this whole case is extremely wrong and I can only screw Theresa May for being such a useless cunt. Ten of thousands of people have protested over this case and state any trial should be held in the UK but she ignored all. If anyone want to smack her hard then be my guest.
  - White Witch
    
    He broke no law in the UK
MadAsASnake

It beggars beleive that laws enacted to fight terrorism (and ill judged ones even for that) are being rolled out for such trivial stuff as copyright infringement. The extradition request for Richard O’Dwyer should have recieved a firm and immediate “no”. While there was no conceivable excuse for 9/11, the response could not have been botched more thoroughly. A little more trust in justice and due process would have served the world far better in so many ways. This extradition wouldn’t be conceivable pre-9/11. It is a deep shame that it appears so inevitable today. Just as Guantanamo bay, extrordinary rendition and the Iraq war fuelled the flames of jihad, these sort of actions serve to rile citizens against the perpetrators. It’s not even good business.
- http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn
  
  Sadly, it no longer ‘beggars belief’. It would beggar belief if a country actually stood up for its innocent people and told the MAFIAA and its corrupt US government pals to piss off back into their sewer.
  
  The light at the end of this horrible tunnel, however, is clearly described in your last sentence. The great power we people have is our spending power. If we stop buying MAFIAA products they will die. If we stop doing business with the US it will die. Given time, I believe they both inevitably will. There is a phrase that all bullies like them ignore at their peril – “Beware the fury of the patient man”.
  
  When the people of the world are finally tipped over the brink by the disgusting, sordid and brutal behaviour of these parties you will be able to make a fortune selling tickets to the flies on the wall. And the cheering will be heard on the Moon.
Anonymous

All governments LIE. The MAFIAA trying to extradite someone who just linked to copyrighted stuff, that like me being extradited to Iran just because I said something bad about Islam. The only thing worse than them doing that is my own idiot government bending over and kissing their ass, giving into their demands. You’ll never hear BCC or CNN talk about this. They just feed everyone lies and would rather distract us with stories of octomom while freedom is being torn from the inside out. The MAFIAA and US government is looking like a bunch of bullies, and the UK government is a bunch of incompetent idiots for allowing it.
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http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

and so, once again they proved their cowardliness. can’t go against anyone of their lvl, so they’re are going after ppl like this dude or ones that run pub (from previous article) . what can I say – scared losers
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

The time is coming rapidly where you cannot exist on the net, without being in violation of american law. (it’s already here for those of us IN america, every single one of us is guilty of one felony or violation of a federal regulation somewhere.) The only choice left is on your feet, or on your knees.
Guest

When a bully (or a gang) abuses power, the power needs to be removed from that bully in some way. As long as he keeps getting what he wants, he will continue to push those limits and boundaries. It is time to say NO to the bully.

I live in the US and have been proud in most ways to be a US citizen. This is NOT something I support. (I don’t support the current administration at all – they are raping us of our fundamental rights in our own country.)
- White Witch
  
  I live in the UK and they are raping us of more rights and we are not even part of your country.
IFUXXSYSTEMS

Theresa May says water-boarding peasants is OK.
So she needs a bullet in the ear.
Then she does this…
It’s like voting, but it works
Simple.
- Ralph Brubaker
  
  Water boarding is wrong, so I shoot people, dur hur.
Desu75

U mad? What you going to do about it? Good ol USA going to do what we want to ensure freedom everywhere. FUCK YEAH! But seriously. Stop being our bitches.
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foff

How fucking stupid is this? Extradite someone to give them two years in an american prison. What a worthless waste of taxpayer money.
Jamesd

Can he approach the Queens bench?
FuckMyGovernment

The plaintiffs and the attorneys should have their balls nailed to a stump. The stump should be lit on fire. They should then be handed a butter knife.
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White Witch

Can we extradite Theresa May for breach of the 4th and 5th amendments? How do we go about bringing charges against her in the US so that she faces extradition?
Anyone know? Because I am sure there will be enough people willing to contribute to a legal fund to have her extradited to face American law.
We can get her on the 4th amendment for failing to remove laws that allow the government and law enforcement to read our e-mails and tap our phones without first gaining a court order. As she is the Home Secretary it is ultimately her responsibility. We can get her on the 5th amendment with regards to all these people she is sending off to the US to face charges when they have broken no UK laws.

So come on, lets see if we cannot get her sent to the US to face charges.
http://www.amazeline.com/631 Stephen

And slowly… gone are the privileges of free internet. Just we watch.
- Anon
  
  So you think he had a privilege to post links to copyrighted content? That privilege isn’t “gone”. I don’t think he ever had it, he just took it.
  
  Like they are taking him, now.
  - HeyNonAnon
    
    Hey Anon, check this out:
    
    http://torrentfreak.com
    
    It’s a link to copyrighted content. That’s how the internet works – things hyperlink to other things. All of those pages linking to other pages are linking to content whose creators are generally the holders of the copyright. This in and of itself is not a criminal act.
    - Ralph Brubaker
      
      Did you just make over 230,000 dollars on ads to that?
      FAILURE FAILS AGAIN… Dur hurdy hur hur.
    - HeyNonAnon
      
      @Ralph Malph
      
      How much money I may or may not make from advertising on a links site is inconsequential. I would not be profiting from the links themselves, nor the sites the links lead to, but purely from page views. That is not a criminal act either, it’s how advertising works. Even Google’s advertising revenue comes in this very same way and everything they link to is copyrighted material by the very definition of copyright.
  - Awilson25
    
    he has a right to post a link to any fucking where he wants! If that we not true, then GOOGLE could not exist! GOOGLE links to copyrighted material MILLIONS of times EVERY hour! This kid should be released by the US Government the second he steps on US soil. He needs a good lawyer. Then maybe he can not only escape the charges, also sue the US Government for millions of dollars for false imprisonment.
WTF?

Americans, that is if you still wish to call yourself an American, please leave a message on the Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line at 1-202-353-1555 about this. It’s horrible that they’re being allowed to do something like this.
David

and another live ruined,, Moving to Russia where the only crime is to dislike Putin is starting to sound a pretty good deal when comparing to the current western governments.
- Bepp0
  
  Pretty funny you mention it, but even disliking Putin isn’t a crime here. Russia is actually pretty free country, because most stupid laws don’t work here, cuz no one cares.
Ssdsdfsfssss

Normal counties do not extradite their own citizen
- Desu75
  
  Especially to countries where they like rape a little too much.
  - HeyNonAnon
    
    Anon likes rape, and likes to blame it on the victim, At some point you can guarantee that shill will be on here espousing these vile ideals again.
Assholes

FUCK THE USA!!!!!!!!
Desu75

This issue really needs more publicity. How about Kony 2012-like video except call it Theresa May 2012?
1ofmillions

I read the following on Techdirt, March 13, 2012 and I had to pass it on.

“I watch an episode of The Daily Show via their website – Not stealing

I watch an episode of The Daily Show at a bar – Not stealing

I watch an episode of The Daily Show on cable – Not stealing

I record an episode of The Daily Show via DVR or MythTV – Not stealing

I download an episode of The Dialy Show – Stealing!”

This is what is wrong with the idea of infringement in context to the Entertainment Industry. There is just so much hypocricy. Sickening really!

Thanks to
el_segfaulto – Mar 13th, 2012 @ 10:03am “Techdirt”
- Danny
  
  In this case its
  
  ‘I shared a hyperlink to a youtube video – Stealing!?!?’
Lulz

Have to admit that this is pretty unusual, consider; Last time Teresa May was in the news she was letting people into the country with extremely relaxed restrictions and blamed someone else.

Now, Teresa is extraditing British citizens and subjecting them to US law. This is actually the conservatives answer to the recession, import foreigners and expel British citizens… they don’t have to pay them let alone recognise them as actual people.
Mr.Afghanistan

NOW THIS IS VERY RUDE FOR A COUNTRY LIKE UK TO SEND A STUDENT OUT AND PUT HIM IN JAIL FAR FROM HIS FAMILY JUST BECAUSE OF SOME STUPID MEDIA FILES.

PLEASE THINK WHAT YOU ARE DOING. HUMANS ARE NOT DOING THIS, IF YOU ARE ABOUT $ ONLY, THEN GOOD LUCK.

I HIGHLY CONDEMN THIS MOVE DONE BY UK GOVERNMENT.
LSD

If it’s any help …

LSD cures alcoholism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17297714
- Desu75
  
  It can cure any addiction by changing thought patterns of the use. LSD can change your entire life in one use.
  - Daniel Butler
    
    One use and it changes your thought patterns? Thats extremely frightening.
Anonymous

It took 240 years, but it appears the transition is finally complete. The UK is now officially the butt biatch of America.
- Ralph Brubaker
  
  Uh, that began in 1776. And finalized sometime in 1783.
- Iliketurtles
  
  Errr… Nothing has really changed then?
RodRussian

USA, the country of freedom…Total bullshit. That country thinks they rule the world and can do whatever they want from attacking to other countries because “they might support terrorism” to destroying foreign businessmen’s life (Dotcom case) and now this extraditing case. I don’t hate americans, I hate their government and what they are doing. Actually I feel sorry for people that have to live in shithole like that.

All other countries must stop kissing USA’s ass. I know my country (Finland) does it too, law in here makes it possible to extradite people to foreign countries for very small crimes like filesharing. It has never been used in such cases, but I’m afraid that it’ll be.
- Guest
  
  Why are you not holding your leaders accountable for bowing to foreign pressure? Blame the USA all that you like, but the real blame falls on your leaders and the citizens that allow their bullied leaders to stay in power.
  - Lulz
    
    Our leaders are accountable but it comes down to stealth agreements forced by the United States including unfair extradition treaties, our government won’t abandon trade with the states obviously.
    
    Quite frankly there is nothing the British people can do unless Team America backs the hell off, we cannot even request details of this agreement in order to break it down into terms or to challenge it under EU and UK law.
    
    We have a ‘special’ relationship.. basically everything we want nuclear is ours and has been for the longest time, but in order to maintain that relationship we always have to make some very unfair compromises.
    
    So you’ll probably then ask why we don’t vote them out, well the reason is that three out of three main parties support this relationship, the only option is complete reform.. but trying to convince hundreds of self serving toffs to give up power in order to make changes for the benefit of the people.. unless V for Vendetta happens.. it’s not happening.
    - Zkool87
      
      Our Government sucks.
      
      -An American citizen
- Daniel Butler
  
  As an American citizen I agree. lots of things are great about our country, but our government is the biggest asshole in the world. They treat american citizens like criminals and foreign citizens like terrorists.
http://www.sensibilium.com/ Sir Oblong of Orange

Shame is brought upon us by HMG.
Anonymous

As big a dick as the U.S is being for even trying to do it in the first place the U.K is even worse for allowing it to happen.
- Rplatypus
  
  The UK isn’t just allowing it to happen, they are making it happen by extraditing their own citizen. This falls more on the UK then the US. The UK is selling out their own citizens.
  - Anonymous
    
    This extradition law is unbalanced.
    
    The USA only requires reasonable suspicion to extradite UK citizens but the UK requires reasonable proof to extradite US citizens to the UK. Their abuse of this treaty, even if it is hard to abuse a mere suspicion, well highlights why we should end it.
Ralph Brubaker

The case was brought by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which claims that the TVShack.net website earned more than $230,000 (£147,000) in advertising revenue before US authorities obtained a warrant and seized the domain name in June 2010.
- Danny
  
  I would like to see where they got their figures.
  
  Probably the same place as in the ‘TPB’ trial, some shitty website that does a silly calculation based on hits. Morons.
- Anonymous
  
  Maybe they should hit up the advertisers that support the it by allowing, and paying out for, their adds on the sites. That could be loosely interpreted as aiding a criminal ?
Desu75

Serves him right for not breaking any laws in his country! oh god I hope he gets raped.
- adyshor
  
  I hope you get raped by some homeless people
  - Fredrika
    
    > “I hope you get raped by some homeless people”
    
    You misunderstood his comment, it was not serious, it is made up of sarcasm, and is a semi-quote of one of Anon’s previous comments, who seemed to be exited about the thought of rape for people convicted of filesharing or aiding and abetting filesharing, and then blaming the victim for it.
Samlock

Seems a mighty coincidence that Richard is extradited on the VERY SAME DAY that David Cameron heads to the USA to meet with Obama for three days…
- Guest
  
  yeah, bringing along the head of this young guy on a plate to display proof of obediance…
  middleages were more civilized.
Anonymous

I hope someone looks into Theresa May’s financial records and checks if everything is in order that she hasn’t been paid off by the MAFIAA to “blindly” sign this extradition of an UK citizen. Furthermore, I hope she is NOT re-elected. She needs to have her face and name blasted all over every single news outlet’s frontpage for selling out an UK citizen to the US.

Why is another country letting another country bully them? It’s absolutely insane!
Anonymous

Ars says he visited the US when he was 5, you say he’s never been to the United States. Who’s right?
- Penguin
  
  What is your point? I have to respect the law of a country I visit while I’m there, it doesn’t mean that I have to continue to follow them while I’m in another one. It is like being a girl, going to country I can’t drive and back in my not driving anymore? If that is your point, then I should never visit USA. It is planned for next year but If I risk my freedom going there just because I follow tweet from wikileaks and because I post in this thread or because I share link to youtube, then why would I visit such country? I’d better visit south america or russia or china, there are more freedom there
  - Anonymous
    
    That’s not my point. I have nothing to prove. I wanted to know.
  - Seanemone
    
    Are you a dumbass? It doesn’t matter if he’s breaking the law of a country he isn’t in, if he’s openly hurting people FROM another country. These people saying “The US should send women drivers to Saudi Arabia” are completely retarded. A better analogy would be to say that someone with a magical sniper gun that can shoot forever, is sitting in the UK and he is sniping US citizens. That’s the logic being used here. He’s stealing from US companies and clearly the UK agrees, fucking stupid kids on this website.
    
    With that said, I am in full support of anyone that pirates, since I actually believe that US hollywood and entertainment companies steal from it’s own citizens in an extreme way. Anyone that pirates should be untouched, because the RIAA are the real pirates.
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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3RLSYYI27HX5LQY5HAQJ7YCGKM Neman NeN

US gov. works very well getting new territories.
Guest

When a country sacrifices its youth for the sake of the old and wealthy, you know the seeds of revolution have been planted, and will ultimately grow enough.
Anonymous

like many others, i signed the original petition over this issue some time ago. although May has chosen to override UK laws and citizens opinions to appease US entertainment industries lobbying, we should all feel horrified at this guys treatment, never knowing who will be next. i assume there is another petition asking for her to reverse her decision and if so, could someone give a link, please? if there are any other suggestions as to who to write to to show the disgust people feel, that would be good too.
- Anonymous
  
  There will be another… and another… and another…
  
  Unless we DO something about it.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  you really think the pathetic goverment her will listen to the people , and disobey their yankee masters?
Anonymous

I think we should turn Theresa May into a babbling, shaking, crying, mentally-scarred wreck for life. It’s not like she’d be doing the people of the UK any more of a disservice in such a state. Hell, it may even prevent people’s lives being ruined.

Anyone disagree?
- IFUXXSYSTEMS
  
  WE SHOULD WATERBOARD THE STUPID CUNT.
  AFTER ALL, “IT’S NOT TORTURE”
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
    
    according to the USA waterboarding is fun
Desu75

Would this also have implications for Julian Assange? Could Hollywood say he pirated those cable feeds? You heard it here folks, all those cables were given to Universal for possible future show scripts. So whether he goes to Sweden or not doesn’t matter.
Ukpussies

i can’t believe this shit! if he’s from the UK then he should be in the UK prison and not in some american! WTF is this? does america own UK or what? fucking UK pussies.
- Bombs for stupid people
  
  in past UK own half of world and call colonies – USA is a ex UK colony – populated with ex uk prisoniers ,poor people ,criminals
  
  LOL – USA learn from UK and become a worst nightmare of the world , and yes now USA own UK and entire wolrd , they pretend to be the no 1 in the wolrd
  mmm….they foget something soon of later Russia and China will fuck USA very hard ,
  
  F.U.C.K USA ,fk your system and your grandpa UK , all kind of these parasite countries must be destroyed and all stupid and bitch people like Theresa May must be killed phisicaly – terorism is the best and effective (ultimate) solution for that dirty bitches !
  they must feel the same fear like inocent people ,they must be killed becouse they doing the same with inocent people (see whats happened recently in Afganistan with inocent civil people – they are killed by USA brainwashed mad soldiers )
  USA IS THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WOLRD WHO VILOATE ALL LAWS AND DONT PAY FOR THAT ( HUMAN RIGHTS , INTERNATIONAL LAWS , OTHER COUNTRY LAWS ETC )
  DONT YOLU THINK IS TIME TO MAKE USA TO PAY ?
  
  USA MUST PAY FOR ALL OF THESE CRIMES AND PROSECUTIONS !
  USA MUST BE DESTROYED !
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
    
    to make the usa pay we need honest polititions ,ohhh look martians from the sun have arrived from the sun,to have lunch
Bldp Group

just because their 2 towers get toasted and thousands of life killed, doesnt mean they can do whatever they want to other countries. but whos gonna stop them?
- Kró
  
  And you must know, the US gov made that, an inside job
  a false flag. So it explains why they’re trying to do anything they want now.
That One Guy

Our streets are filled with crimes like rape, theft, and murder. We arrest a kid in another country for posting links on a website? What next, they arrest people for smoking grass? Oh wait…

The shiny American dream is more like a rusty nail I just stepped on, and I can’t even get a tetanus shot because we don’t have health care…
Maximum

Madness sheer madness
- Guest
  
  No… SPARTA!
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Guess

hopefuly this will get shot down in the EU courts if their pursuing a appeal there.
Trogdorable

This is becoming a terrible tourism ad for the US.
“Travel to America! See all California, Vegas, New York, Florida, etc have to offer! But if you can’t afford that or just aren’t interested, That’s OK! Commit a ridiculous crime and we can extradite you. After we make your life an uncertain hell for a few years in the court systems, you’ll be whisked across the ocean where we’ll give you a tour of one (or more) of the charming prisons that you’ll be staying in far longer than seems necessary for the crime you committed! America! Excitement! Come on over!”
gonzo greatness

Stop Extradition – Fair UK Trial for Richard O’Dwyer
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-extradition-fair-uk-trial-for-richard-o-dwyer.html

Maybe this link should’ve been added to the story.
stop the rot

email her direct ……………… do not just sit and read, do something no matter where you are in the world.

mayt@parliament.uk
Guest

What’s next? British pub owners being extradited to Saudi Arabia because they sell beer to Arabs? British journalists being extradited to China because they report about Falun Gong?

Is this how an allegedly forward looking nation treats its budding internet entrepreneurs?

Absolutely appalling.
- Tren
  
  No, don’t be so scare, the next is break another US law
  and being deported to US for that. Basically, it always
  will be about US and an all expenses paid travel to there.
  The thing is, probably other countries will be added to the package.
The guy

It seems the British government are ass kissers of the US, considering that he has never done anything within US jurisdiction (correct me if i’m wrong about that), and they decided to betray one of their own citizens just for a quick buck to send the poor man overseas. I’m horribly ashamed to be a US citizen.
Chronoss2008

see how hollywood wastes YOUR TAX DOLLARS
now all he has to do and id do it is drag it all out as much as possible
and cost everyone as much as possible
YA i know you get more “time” but ya know what
nelson mendella spent a long time in a jail for no real crime either….
Chronoss2008

btw canada the day that the conservatives make hte new copyright law FORMAL…a few million of us should turn our selves in and refuse bail.”JUdge your a boot licking panzy assed american ass kisser that wishes lil kids and disabled to see harm”
that phrase ought to gte ya denied bail.
“im at risk your unhonour of offending again and again as i do not recognize this repressive law from a govt that has used robocalls to misdirect voters are steal the election. I do not want bail.”-on currrent issues.

YOU want to screw the system in one swat
THIS IS THE WAY.
Chronoss2008

the loss of 2 million or more from the tax revenues will send the govt spiraling into chaos and with its massive layoffs of govt workers no one will be able to handle it.
pudabudigada

Is there someone us UK based people of moral fibre can e-mail to protest this?
Sam12345

I see i am late to the party again..lol

I find it a shame that a once great country like the USA has such a poor reputation internationally that comments about 9/11 are no longer met with the contempt and disdain they deserve…but this is how much the US is hated by the rest of the world right now.
Let me state categorically that I like Americans, they are just as intelligent and considerate as the rest of us, but I hate America. The whole system of capitalism they adhere to, is corrupted, and they now believe that they can do what they like without consequence.
If the US want to leave millions of less privileged people without health care, benefits, jobs and want to treat the less fortunate with disdain and contempt, then thats entirely their business, however contemptible that may seem to the rest of the world.

What is currently happening is not acceptable, USA does not rule the world despite what their leaders think. They do not own the internet, despite what their leaders think.

The legislation used to extradite this young man was brought in after 9/11 and rightly allows easier extradition of terrorists/suspected terrorists, it was never designed to allow greedy companies, with falsified facts to protect their monopoly.

I am also disgusted in my own government for not just allowing this, but actively encouraging it. The UK govt had an inquiry into our extradition treaty with the US not so long ago and found that it was still safe, despite the US refusing to extradite suspects to the UK WITHOUT a full trial in the US first.

However, ever the optimist that I am, I am sure that this man will appeal, all the way to the European court of human rights where, despite what our govt would have us believe, his rights WILL be upheld and he wont be extradited.

…How long this safeguard will be in place is a discussion for another day, as the govt and British press currently have an agenda to scare us into believing that we are at risk because the European court has told us that one particular terror suspect has a right not to be sent back to his own country, where he faces the death penalty, based on evidence obtained using torture.

We are all in or all out, I for one, am all in….Europe protects its citizens, its a shame the UK don’t do the same.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  i think the usa should be disconected from the internet,theyre a virus infecting the rest of the world,sorry normal us ppl but you need to deal with your corrupt goverment and entertainment industry
Guest343387

He should serve time in his home country. Why do US taxpayers have to pay for his expenses??
- MadAsASnake
  
  Why? He has broken aby UK law.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
    
    he hasnt broken any uk laws
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  who said the yanks are paying ,were probably paying the yanks dont spend money they steal it
zzz

Fuck em…. better luck in the next life bro.

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BenjaminFranklin

When the criminals are in power the innocents go to prison.

It is time to impeach and arrest the president vice president and staff for treason as they are violating the US constitution in multiple ways.

More precisely the US constitution explicitly forgive the US government from enforcing foreign laws on US soil, and from enforcing US law on foreign soil. Therefore charging an UK citizen for something he is supposed to have done while living in the UK is UNLAWFUL.!

Guys, it is time to do something. Let’s gather the US army and dismiss the US government.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  since when has that stopped the us, if its illegal you can bet the us goverment is right there creating it
Psyco

The great thing is when I kill US Citizens in the UK It’s a UK crime so they have no grounds to extradite me.
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White Witch

Sign the petition to get this stopped:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27404
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Noneone

As an American this makes me sick. Here is the US goverment pushing it’s laws on A non-US citizen just for A website that links to other possibly infinging websites. I bet they charge him with being an illegal immigrant to when he gets to america.
- Guest
  
  America has the highest prison population per capita, I guess you need to import prisoners now and pay for foreigners out of your tax money, so you government can protect Hollywood interests.
  
  America the home of the Brave my ass, more like corporate run prisons.
  - Anonymous
    
    Don’t confuse us with our government. We are the home of the brave, and we are going to start some_shit soon if things don’t get changed! Remember, many of us have guns and a propensity for freedom. If our government is not in our best interest, we will take it back!
    - http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
      
      well im sorry your being labeled too ,look at the leaders of a country to see the real worth of it ,and yes i am ashamed of britain right now
Guest

What about a on-line pettition?
Skilo

Fuck the US government and any other government that supports these draconian laws.
Pirate

I’m going to go pirate a ton of shit in his honor.
Tom

Leave a comment on her blog here http://www.tmay.co.uk/contact

it probably won’t do any good but at least we get to tell her what a prat she is
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Fuck You Theresa May!!!
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http://keverw.com/ Kevin Whitman

:( I’m so not proud of my country lately. We need to stop trying to be the worlds police.
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If the country EXTRADITES its own peoples, the citizenship is just a piece of paper.
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Fuckoff

disgusting…down with UK and the USA.
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PreggyPeggy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-17355203
Steve

USA the new world NAZI!!!!!!
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  at least hitler didnt rewrite the geneva convention like the yanks did
STUPIDUSA

FUCKING JOKE
http://www.facebook.com/people/Leonard-Roe/1574765264 Leonard Roe

I am disMAYed that the UK government would enter such a lop-sided agreement with the USA….very odd this thing is.

I’m 100% against this bullshit of internationalizing prosecutions for something that violates one country’s laws, but not the one where the so-called crime took place.

What’s next? sending people to Saudi Arabia to be tried for ridiculing Islam?

Or to China for posting videos of Tiananmen Square?

call me old fashioned…but I think UK citizens should be subject to UK laws…..not US laws…..unless they are actually in the US when they violate one of our stupid laws.
Bonedead

My favorite part is how they say they have to “pay back” money.
Wdqind2

http://www.tmay.co.uk/contact Send emails to her and explain how much she sucks
People

Copy a MAFIIA file = PRISON

Be blackmailed by MAFIIA = “Honored” Politicians / “Happy” Judciary

Normal People = Do anything
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Flubaluba

Another politician selling themselves for a few dollars, I wonder if she has thought of the consequences to her when he is on the plane over to the USA. The British press will destroy her life. And she deserves every moment of the attention she is going to get. This is shameful and in my opinion is a disgrace to British Law that it has been allowed to happen. But it will cause serious anger towards the entertainment industry and that is what we need more of in Britain.I can see people boycotting the cinemas and boycotting any of the entertainment industry’s products, well the few that you cannot get for free already, I see a big jump in torrenting in the near future as more people get to hear about how easy it is in the press. And believe me, if anything, the press in england is very capable of messing with the entertainment industry in ways that will have them begging for mercy.
Joe Rainer

I am both astounded and disgusted at this, I cannot believe that our own government is refusing to protect us from yet another archaic American legal drive.

Part of the reason I am proud to live in the UK is because on the whole we see a lot fewer intrusive and cretinously vindictive laws, and thus I am hugely disappointed to see that Theresa May has failed to protect one of our own.
justaquestion?

yet the american soldier that killed sixteen civilians IN a foreign country is shipped home immediatly, why then following this logic, was he not held accountable in the country he commited the crime? just asking?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  cause the usa couldnt pardon him there lol
Daniel Butler

I think another hypocrisy I see going unmentioned here is the one where brits say OUR GOVERMENT SUCKS and FUCK AMERICA. It’s not America, it’s our damn government. Unfortunately most of us are happy to ignore it, especially when it’s doing stuff outside of our borders. I personally plan on moving to another country Canada? Switzerland? when I’ve graduated from University to get away from it.
Bad Wolf

Lets all create weblinking sites. it’ll stop overzealous actions such as this
Fake

So when with Bush be extradited to Iraq or Afghanistan?

Oh, that’s right, laws are only for controlling poor people.

Government is organized crime. Police are mercenaries.

They have no moral authority just men that use the threat of violence to control others.

Helping people? Al Capone had soup kitchens as part of his public relations. He was still a greedy, ruthless and brutal murderer just like the government.
Anonymous

This is a display of the amoral, money driven, Corporate-Political-Judicial-Banking systems that we have in the US and it makes me sick and it fills me wil hatred for the people who make these things happen and those who allow them to continue making these crimes against humanity happen. And all because we have so many people here in the states who don’t have a clue what a “Priority” is or what “Reality” is. They believe “It Must be True, Because its On TV”.
Us984984

First, before the trolls begin, I am 100% against the “justice” in the case at hand and think that both gov’ts are at fault. however, I would like to insert a slightly opposing opinion to a few of the comments.

Every where i look, I see “F*ck the U.S. they are so stupid!” just because this law/treaty is an example of that does NOT mean you can randomly bash the U.S. for every little (or not so little) thing it has done wrong in the last 12 years. This is B.S. bias that does not account for the billions of dollars of aid that go to foreign countries every year.

Another absurd comment i saw was: “It’s about time for another [plane to fly into a U.S. building.]” Yes, right. let’s have another terrorist attack like the 9/11 attacks that sparked the anti-terror frenzy that gave rise to the very extradition law that this young man is being used by! Smart Idea!

And thirdly: “I guess i will be extradited to (insert foreign country) for (insert daily task here) because it is illegal there. This is the exact reason that the U.S. and the U.K. have not made treaties with these countries. Please blame the U.K. gov’t for letting the U.S. punish their citizens for a U.K..-legal act.

I would like to emphasize again that I am 100% against the way this situation was handled. The U.S. should have encouraged the U.K. gov’t to punish him in the U.K. courts, not used and anti-terror treaty for illegitimate reasons.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  oh you mean like the aid to the war lords to over throw a legal goverment,to elect the president of iraq,money that put the marcos’s and the shah of iran in power,yes good point,sorry havent got all day to write down about funding the nunerous terrorist groups,yes money well spent,l rotflmfao
Captain Stupendousness

If monetary damages (in this case, allegedly caused by torrenting) are perfectly, completely fungible with physical damage (in this case, the very real harm of incarceration that will be done to Mr. O’Dwyer); then it makes perfect sense to lock O’Dwyer up. It’s a only fair reprisal for the harm he did to content publishers, right? Tit for tat.

Of course, by that same line of reasoning, if someone were to hunt down and brutally maim the RIAA lawyer who filed the claim in the first place (and the HR person that signs his paycheck, and one or two people that sit on the corporate board…); litigation would be unnecessary. The offender and the aggrieved could just settle out of court. No muss, no fuss, no problem. Right? Put it on kickstarter, I’m sure it’d be popular.

Britain, if any of you want to come visit us here in the US, we’d love to have you.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  think after this i would rather go skinny dipping in an erupting volcano than visit the usa,at least i know what im getting into
James

He should not be punished for what he did. Also, he should not be sent to the United States so that our tax payers need to support another prisoner. These politicians are out of hand.
Zkool87

The mistake most foreigners make is the the U.S. Government actually represents it’s people. It’s just not true.
Tyrx

I don’t think he deserves 10 years in prison by all means or for that matter be extracted to the US, that’s crazy.

Although considering the fact that the dude was making a crap load of money via ads on a website dedicated to piracy certainly means he SHOULD to be prosecuted/punished.

And yes, that means that I’m not exactly a supporter of TPB.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  he made 50 sodding quid from advertising not from selling any material get your facts right
Attitudeiswhatugot

America created the interwebs, “arpanet”. A swedish dude created the links between the pages. So essentially America owns the internet. So him being extradited to America for stealing American intellectual property while on America’s internet MAKES SENSE. You thought we just run the 3rd world countries? Bitch we will snatch you UP ANYWHERE.
- http://twitter.com/jonnyfram Jonny Fram?
  
  America’s laws and constitution is essentially derived from English ones. By your logic the UK owns your legal proceedings.
  
  Creating something does not imply indefinite ownership- or jurisdiction.
richard mclaughlin

be sure you dont break any of these laws:

Alabama

It is illegal to play dominoes on Sunday.
It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
Bear wrestling matches are prohibited.
Putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.
Men may not spit infront of the opposite sex.
Masks may not be worn in public.
One must have windsheild wipers on one’s car.
Solitare may not be played on Sundays.
In Aniston one can’t wear blue jean’s down Noble Street.
In Aulburn it’s unlawful for some one to spit upon the sidewalks, the floors of buses, places of worship, or other public places (theaters, meeting halls).
In Lee County it’s illigal to sell peanuts after sundown on Wednesday.
Petey

As an American I find this utterly disgusting.
Sirjaysmith

Wow is this thread serious?

How did the UK selling out their own citizens turn into a “fuck america” fest?

You can lay the blame on whoever you want, but YOUR OWN government sold you out.
- Anonymous
  
  See, that’s something that most people in the UK don’t seem to get. I mean, just this week, David Cameron said he was going to “ignore furious objection” with regards to developing the countryside.
  
  That is the leader of the nation saying, “F*** you, we’ll do what we want.”
  
  Can’t get much more clearer than that, now can you?
http://twitter.com/Rainbowlemon Aidan Jalali

So are we going to have to start blocking activity from the US now?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  we should,theyre like a virus,lets isolate them
Emkay443

That is so disgusting… What’s next on the list? Sending homosexuals to Afghanistan or Iraq because you can’t be charged for homosexuality in Europe?!
zero

i crap i need to fly to the us and turn my self in because:
- I have been drinking under aged (according to US laws)
- I have pirated some games (not illegal here but it is in the US)
- i have smoked weed in public (not illegal here but it is in the US)
- i probably broke a dozen of US laws i didn’t know of

so yea I am a criminal of the worst kind.
i deserve a live sentence (maybe not in my country here i did nothing against the law, but i certainly do in the US
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DFJSE442ETTMDBVPNWHAJO4PDE M.
  
  Don’t worry, I live in the US, haven’t done the things you’ve admitted to, and still have probably broken a dozen laws I don’t know of. This country has gotten crazy with passing more laws than anyone could possibly keep up with:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiJB8YuDBQ
Anon

Clearly virtually no brits are in favour of this so how can it happen? Are US corporations running the UK? This kids life will be ruined forever and he didn’t hurt anyone. What’s next US drone attacks in the UK?
Melteg

My reading of this so far is that this guy committed an offense in the US but not in the UK. So, by driving on the left hand side of the road, I’m committing an offenses in the US. Therefore I assume I can be extradited to the US. Its a pity political stupidity wasn’t an offense in some country. We could extradite the politicians there.
Anonymous

I wish the US would stop playing “World Police” and start minding its own business.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  never going to happen till they own the world
Guest

I think a lot of people seem to be missing the point: he didn’t commit a crime.

It would be like Britain demanding that the USA extradite a US citizen to stand trial in the UK for owning a gun on American soil.
He’s a UK citizen and he did what he did in the UK, where it’s not a crime.

US law is not world law. It’s disgusting that the US government should try to charge a foreign national under these circumstances and it’s doubly disgusting that the UK government has capitulated to that obscene demand.
Accrabeach

What about going to the European Court of Rights & Justice? That is one of the most absurd rulings I have ever heard of. Aren’t extradition laws for murder & manslaughter?
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  its ok to take lives in the usa theyre worthless but god help you if you take any amount of money like a dollar,money is a god over there
Oft3ofc

If your mom got a package in the mail postmarked United Kingdom and she opened it and it was a bomb that killed her, and the person who sent it was not American and had never been to America, would you want them brought to the US for trial?
- YourARetard
  
  Yeah nice comparisons retard…committing murder to linking sites.
Ianhitt111

hold on, stop bagging on USA for a minute and realize that the stupid biatch in the UK approved of the extradition as well.
FUGovs

This is the end of the world really. hey usa why don’t you send a drone plane and just shoot the guy… just an idea… (sarcasm)
guest

pretty much. our lifes seem to be ‘ballsin’ up more and more, i say just to carry on with starting more pirating sites, they cant throw us all in jail if we stand up for ourselves.
http://twitter.com/stevie_leigh91 StevieLeigh

gee. hes going to jail for providing links to 1s and 0s. shits fucked.
Ses

An act is considered as a crime when one or more ones is (are) being harmed by according to the law (which normally comes from the voice of the mass).
With WWW, there is no limit. What if, someone in the UK is able to steal from an American Bank using online system.
Or to the extreme, able to make someone in the US deaf by sending a deafening audio file.

With TV Shack, perhaps the ones put in harm the most are the networks in the US, where people are normally have to pay for a service, now are getting it for free.

It is normal if those who are experiencing losses ask for a responsibility from the one who cause the losses.

IMO
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Miller/100000977205574 Kevin Miller

Only and idiot country would send there citizens to the United States to go to prison. Imo he should be subject to British courts and if found guilty spend his time in British jail.
- http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel
  
  but he didnt break any british laws
Anonymous

No money was fucking stolen. What a fucking joke. This shit is irresponsible and unacceptable. Let the poor guy go, and stop governments doing shit like this is what I say. Shit’s out of hand. I am fucking pissed.
guestly.

where is anonymous when you need them.?
Awilson25

if this linking site is illegal, then so is google.com. somebody better prosecute google.com!!!
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Nicolette stepro

Disgusting. Free to air (and that’s what TV shows over the air for free), free to share! I am amazed they ruled VCRs and DVRs legal (and they did try to make them illegal). US Govt= Corporate Whore.
Anonymous

ṁy buďďy’ś śiśteŔ Ṁakeś $72 every ĥouŔ on tĥe laptop. Śĥe ĥaś been uneṀployeď for 5 ṁontĥś but laśt ṁontĥ ĥer cĥeck Waś $8465 juśt WoŔking on tĥe laptop for a feW ĥourś. Ŕeaď Ṁore on tĥiś Śite …. Goo.gl/189kz
John Doe

talk about brown nosing.
http://profile.yahoo.com/ULCYKG5ZF6ACD44TPBFIXE3VS4 Alexandria Michel

the yankee goverment want to use all the old and sick people in the UK as cattle food,UK goverment approves shipping them over to the usa cattles class after recieving free holidays for life in the USA,sound familiar,god give us a goverment with a backbone and help us stand up to the yankee tyrants,disgusted british citizen

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