US Seeks Extradition For UK Student's Copyright Violation

[Trebort]

Sadly this moron is a student at my University. This makes us all look bad.

I say he should be deported. He willingly broke the law. Stole, and profitted from that stolen property. If the American Government don't get him, the companies that own all the copyrighted material will sue him back to the stone age.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Did the Internet become U.S. territory while I wasn't looking?

 

[JonnWood]

As someone who's used websites similar to that, I have one thing to say. Maybe, if we in the UK didn't have to wait until we were like 2 seasons behind to get certain shows, we wouldn't need illegal streams.

What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of me missing Doctor Who Series 5 because the Beeb decided to put it on BBCA instead of SyFy. Also, I think someone is playing a tiny violin.

 

[Spirultima]

Looks to me like america has got power hungry, they have assassinated a dude in a far country and celebrate the kill then decide they are the law of the earth and wish to prosecute someone who isn't from their country and so isn't subject to its laws? Geez grow up.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I hope my country fails hard smashing its face into a brick wall trying to get this guy. I remember when the majority of TV was free, and then when the internet came along it was glorious that I could watch my shows on my terms with having to worry about missing them and wondering when they would be on again.

Too many good sources that provide links to good and great shows are disappearing. I would pay for a membership to a sight that legally provides viewing of shows, if they had shows from back in the day. There is only a handful of shows today that are actually good enough to be on the air.

quit trolling FogHornG36

the BBC is the largest broadcaster in the world.

Now now, he said "of value" can't argue with him there! All that crap we get on BBC America is mindnumbingly stupid, especially "Doctor Who", EUUUUUGH!

Wow I hope that was said in jest, because seriously, the US is in a huge rut of awful television.

There really hasn't been much of a variety of shows in the US. As you might have already guessed, I am American. I use to be a huge television addict back in the day, but within the past five years my percentage of free time spent watching broadcast/cable television has dropped from 40% to around 2%.

There just isn't much fresh and fun television programs these days. Basically what is coming from American airwaves is, crime/cop drama, crime/cop drama, crime/cop drama with slight variation, crime/cop drama with slight variation, law drama, law drama, law drama, soap opera-like teen or adult drama, horribly unoriginal sitcom(multiply that my around 15 or so), reality shows(multiply that by like a few thousand).

Doctor Who is on the top of my list of shows that are almost always consistently good, getting on the list means the show only has one to two mediocre to bad episodes a season. This latest season of Doctor Who has been a doozy to wrap my head around, but it has been good.

Another show I watch from the BBC when it is in season, is Merlin. Merlin and Doctor Who and a few other shows are the reason I love the BBC so much, because it is producing all the great science fiction and fantasy shows that American television has been lacking far some time now. The best thing from the American area in that vein was Stargate, but Universe proved that North American writers don't understand the genre or the Stargate franchise anymore.

From the US, the only shows that I watch when they are in season, are Castle(which is breath of fresh air in the cop show department, another notch on Nathan Fillion's belt that shows how awesome he is).....well come to think of it Castle is the only one.

The stuff from the US that I watch, but not regularly, just whenever I get the chance on the internet, and they are of the reality vein, because as I have pointed out, writing of shows in the US has taken a huge nose dive: Pawn Stars, American Pickers, and Operation Repo(I just love the reaction from people on how they try and justify not having paid for their vehicles or the stories they make up to get out of losing them).

The stagnant nature of 99% of US television in the past few years, has forced me to go to the internet to watch awesome shows from the past and awesome shows from the past that I never got a chance to watch back then.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

As someone who's used websites similar to that, I have one thing to say. Maybe, if we in the UK didn't have to wait until we were like 2 seasons behind to get certain shows, we wouldn't need illegal streams.

What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of me missing Doctor Who Series 5 because the Beeb decided to put it on BBCA instead of SyFy. Also, I think someone is playing a tiny violin.

With how bad SyFy has been with shows in the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually SyFy's decision to not purchase the right to air new Doctor Who anymore. SyFy probably didn't want its "original" stuff to look bad by airing the awesomeness of Doctor Who along with it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

If it were up to me I'd promptly tell those US government dickheads to go fuck themselves.
This just goes to show how much companies are paying politicians to make an issue out of this.

 

[Baresark]

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I believe that the statistic is something like the US makes up for 4.5% of global population, but 25% of global prison population.

I can believe that. I was speaking specifically about America though. Not that it makes it any better. It certainly does not.

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Representation is hard when you can't afford a senator.

I'd say we need to burn it down and start again, but nobody can afford fire anymore.

This is also true. I was just reading an article that pointed out what is called the "cold war consensus", is at an end because the military spending has bankrupted America. Meh, it's better if we have to start new again, clearly this has gotten out of hand. America is going out like punks, meaning the same way the Soviets went down. Go ahead, ask me what killed communism.

 

[vxicepickxv]

As someone who's used websites similar to that, I have one thing to say. Maybe, if we in the UK didn't have to wait until we were like 2 seasons behind to get certain shows, we wouldn't need illegal streams.

What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of me missing Doctor Who Series 5 because the Beeb decided to put it on BBCA instead of SyFy. Also, I think someone is playing a tiny violin.

With how bad SyFy has been with shows in the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually SyFy's decision to not purchase the right to air new Doctor Who anymore. SyFy probably didn't want its "original" stuff to look bad by airing the awesomeness of Doctor Who along with it.

The owner of SyFy is actually trying to lose money on the channel for however long it takes to be able to cancel it, because she doesn't like the sci-fi genre, but can't sell it because it's tied to another channel for sales purposes.

 

[notimeforlulz]

I'm guessing anons and lulzsec will start their protest about this. That should be fun to watch.

 

[daniel the immortal]

so how does america just shut down the site then? are they the gods of the internet?

 

[FogHornG36]

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I did say he shouldn't be charged, what should have happend, is he should have been notified, and told to stop, and then had his web site taken down if he didn't comply, in the end, it comes down to he is showing were to get something illegal.

Also,you can say that the us doesn't produce any tv or movies of value, but their must be a reason why so much of it is translated and aired in so much the rest of the world.
South Park, Family guy, Grey's Anatomy, True Blood, How I met Your mother, Glee, Law & Order, CSI, Breaking Bad, Two and a Half Men, The Simpsons, 24, Friends, Lost, Heros, The Walking dead, Buffy the Vampire slayer, Deadliest Catch, Scrubs,Sex and the City, That '70s Show, Dexter, Seinfeld, House.

Just a few, and im not even going into movies, Not saying i have never seen anything good on BBC but to be fair, We have Hollywood, any that's were it all comes from.

 

[Saelune]

Do I think it wrong for the states to punish him? No. Do I think how is wrong? Yes.
Jail time seems extreme for any copyright infringement, and it seems a bigger issue to bring him here. Im sure a satilite uplink trial could be done honestly.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

With how bad SyFy has been with shows in the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually SyFy's decision to not purchase the right to air new Doctor Who anymore. SyFy probably didn't want its "original" stuff to look bad by airing the awesomeness of Doctor Who along with it.

The owner of SyFy is actually trying to lose money on the channel for however long it takes to be able to cancel it, because she doesn't like the sci-fi genre, but can't sell it because it's tied to another channel for sales purposes.

Has this person always been the owner of the channel, or did she buy the channel for some reason(was that when it changed from Sci-Fi to SyFy)?

If she doesn't like the genre, why did she buy the channel, or was it the other channel you mentioned is why she bought it? Did she buy the channel to run it into the ground, because she has a vendetta against the genre? Because, it is moronic for her to buy ownership of a channel that has to do with a genre that she doesn't like.

What is this channel you speak of that is tied to SyFy?

I need to look more into this. Something tells me she is the reason Stargate Atlantis got canceled, even though it was popular, and why Stargate Universe was written like a horrible soap opera instead of like a classic Stargate science fiction.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Dear US

We hear by retract the Treaty of Paris (1783) and as such refuse to acknowledge your rebellion as being a legitimate nation.

Yours Sincerely,

The United Kingdom

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God I wish they would do that. This is just lunacy it's America trying to be the international policeman again. And every time they've tried that before it has failed.

The only country that can be the worlds policeman is Canada. Because Mounties have international jurisdiction.

 

[fragmaster09]

he's British, so i'll side with him(he didn't kill anyone or do anything like that, if he did, i wouldn't, but countrymen get instant respect), he linked to those sites, not necessarily to gain them downloads, they could have been put there to warn people, but he did not make it clear enough for US government.

he is(as far as i can tell), still a UK citizen, and as such still abides by our laws, as long as linking to illegal sites isn't an offence(can't remember if it is, but i doubt it), then they have nothing on him, they should take down those sites instead, also, whats the point? it's small-time, and makes the US look like bigger A-Holes than they did before(from my experience of the US from my Xbox i can conclude that 90% of them are under 12, and know more insults than god himself... or at least thats what it seems like).

 

[FogHornG36]

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Ya, i get it, you like Top Gear, i could see that from your profile pic, and im not saying that it isn't a good show, but i listed those shows to show you more the number of shows, not to get your opinion on then, because your opinion isn't worth anything to anyone other then yourself, Im talking facts, and the fact of the mater is, that the US has more to loose then the UK does.

Also, Google lets you search for something whether it be Torrents, or cooking recipes, this guys web site, had a catalog of Tv shows, and the links to were to find the illegal streams.

And now just to troll, BBC? So what... They show Doctor who, top gear, and reruns of Monty python's flying circus

 

[Mantonio]

So... it's America overstepping it's boundaries again?

I'm reminded of when they tried to persecute the Pirate Bay people in Sweden. This will turn out just as badly for the US, I feel. It's not like they have a legal leg to stand on anyway.

apart from britian ashamedly being highly submisssive to the states.

Under Labour maybe, Cameron isn't such a brown-noser to the States. Besides, after their recent Falklands comments I doubt we're feeling so generous towards them.

 

[Sabazios]

So everywhere is in the US's jurisdiction? AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!