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UK student faces extradition trial over film web site
A UK STUDENT facing an extradition trial over a film streaming web site will find out soon whether he will be sent to the US for trial in January.
The attempt by the US government to extradite UK student Richard O'Dwyer for running a film streaming web site is a "denial of justice", his defence attorney said in a court hearing.
O'Dwyer's web site, TV-Shack, did not itself publish any so-called 'pirated' material but featured links to unlicensed streams of television shows and Hollywood films.
According to the Telegraph, the 23 year old student's barrister, Ben Cooper, QC, told a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday that there was a "real risk" of him "suffering ill-treatment within a federal system that he will be unable to cope with".
He accused US authorities of using delaying tactics to "create an unlevel playing field at trial" and said O'Dwyer should face a criminal or civil trial in Britain, because the alleged offenses took place in the UK.
However, US government representative John Jones, QC, argued that "access to the website took place in the US, and the victims - the studios - are in the USA".
O'Dwyer was first arrested in June last year by British police acting on information from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Although that investigation was subsequently dropped, O'Dwyer was arrested again in May on an extradition warrant to face charges in the US. µ
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What a surprise, the usual retards come out of the woodwork for a story like this.
When is our country going to scrap this farcical fast track extradition treaty with the US. The US would never dream of shipping off one of their citizens to another country so why should we.
If he has broken any law he should face trial here. Is providing links to material a crime?
i think hollywood should be arrested for producing film of the lowest quality imagineable
i cant beliveve they expect people to pay to see that cr@p!
the industry is aiming to make a few high-profile examples and plaster it over the media to deter people from copyright breaching. they cannot get the real criminals in far-off countries so they go for the soft targets even though they are only small-time in comparison
I'm surprised the US justice system has time to pursue people in the UK. Aren't there some more pregnant women or passive students to teargas? Or some more journalists to arrest? Or how about some more innocent people to be given the death penalty?
"O'Dwyer's web site, TV-Shack, did not itself publish any so-called 'pirated' material"
He must not have been a very bright chap but he'll get an education now.
Lol, victims, I'm assuming he had a few dozen people total who never watched very long to the re-runs in streaming quality.. (which I assume based on classic shoutcast streaming history).
And those people certainly aren't using it as a method of not buying those movies I can guarantee, so no loss was had and no victims are in existence.. except this guy of course.
So if he provided links to a TV show that was copyright in any country to which the UK has an extradition treaty he should be sent there? For example Albania, Iraq, Liberia, Nicaragua and Romania.
BTW, the reverse of this current situation does not apply. A U.S. citizen can pirate copyrighted UK material to his heart's content without fear of extradition to the UK - see the Extradition Act 2003 (c.41).
Anyone capable of turning on a PC knows that it's illegal to use or distribute copyright protected works. Playing dumb is not an effective legal defense. If you can run a website you sure as Hell know about copyright laws that exist worldwide.
On behalf of American citizens, I wish to apologize that we have allowed so many Government douchebags to accept bribes from the RIAA nad MPAA for the purpose of persecuting foreigners for doing perfectly legal things.
If it were up to me, the lot of them would be shipped off to Tehran.
So I'm expected to have a detailed knowledge of US copyright law before I can do anything online? That seems a tad unreasonable. It's ridiculous that the septics can claim that a UK citizen should be extradited for breaking US laws from their own country. Time to tell them where to stick their extradition requests.
Time for a tour of the U.S. boys. Phruck around and go to prison.