US Seeks Extradition For UK Student's Copyright Violation

[Fetzenfisch]

not only after UK but also EU law he didnt do anything forbidden. If you state on your site that you dont take responsibility for the sites you are linking to (which can be altered all the time without you noticing) you cant be blamed for the crimes of the linked pages.
Plus i dont know the EU or UK laws on this , but in Germany it is not illegal to watch a show that has run in tv already, because you can make a copy of everything you could watch on tv, thats why you have to pay a tax for it.

 

[maninahat]

And then I can argue that large organizations steal from artists by claiming absurd expenses for publishing their work.

You're making a circular argument against me.

But those expenses are necessary for making the music, producing vast quantities of cds, and providing the means of sending those songs to millions of people. Plus it pays for artwork, adverts, and everything else. Artists are better off with a big music business than without. Millions of listeners are better off being provided with a means to hear their favourite artists. But this arrangement only works if the business continues to make money. Pirates ensure they make less money. In terms of revenue, artists take a fairly big percentage. 50% for a cd. Far less so on a digital download, but still way more than, say, the royalties a writer receives for a novel (between 5 and 0.5%).

 

[emeraldrafael]

mmm... I can see why we want to bring him here. He's been streaming stuff thats US property (movies, well some of them).

he should be tried in every country that he took something from, and each sentence should be compounded on top of each other. so yes, I do think he should be extradited, but he should also be tried in Britain and other places as well.

 

[JordanMillward_1]

mmm... I can see why we want to bring him here. He's been streaming stuff thats US property (movies, well some of them).

he should be tried in every country that he took something from, and each sentence should be compounded on top of each other. so yes, I do think he should be extradited, but he should also be tried in Britain and other places as well.

Who's property it is, and where they are from, is immaterial. The only thing that counts is the jurisdiction - where the alleged crime occurred.

If it occurred in the UK, and his acts weren't illegal in the UK (they weren't), he hasn't committed a crime, and so there's nothing they can do about it.

If he has broken the law (note - he hasn't), Google and every other search engine that brings up sites like piratebay and demonoid have broken the same law.