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UK Pirate Party slams TV Shack creator's extradition ruling
UK PIRATE PARTY leader Loz Kaye has hit out at draconian copyright law enforcement, saying it has become "absurd to the extreme".
Kaye's comments follow a UK court ruling today that 23 year old student Richard O'Dwyer can be extradited to the US over allegations of copyright infringement by his web site TV Shack.
O'Dwyer is accused of facilitating copyright infringement for setting up the web site TV Shack, which had links to thousands of films and TV shows but did not directly host them. If extradited to the US and convicted of criminal copyright infringement, he could be imprisoned for up to five years.
Kaye said in a statement that the service that O'Dwyer provided was "no different to those of US search giants like Google".
He added,"By supporting the baseless US extradition case against Richard O'Dwyer today at Westminster Magistrates Court Judge Quentin Purdy has failed to inject the much needed shot of rationality into the insanity of the UK-US extradition arrangements [that] we had all hoped for."
The UK Pirate Party leader said that the case highlights how "attempts to enforce copyright law have become absurd in the extreme".
He said, "The fact that a link, a simple pointer to somewhere else, could be deemed a breach of copyright is bizarre. If attempts to extradite Richard are successful it would put anyone who hosts or runs a website at risk for simply sharing a link to a video, some music, a photograph or other media."
He concluded, "This outcome is a failure on the part of our British justice system to act in a sensible and reasonable way. This case is the perfect example of what enforcing copyright is: excessive, overblown and aimed at easy targets innocent or not whilst ignoring the human." µ
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To the comments like 'Pirate and pay the price' - did you actually read the article? He didnt pirate anything.
Not for the known pirate Nicholas Sarkozy it isn't.
Actually that gives me an idea...if I legally change my name to Nicholas Sarkozy I'll be allowed to pirate copyrighted works just like the real Sarkozy?
Judgment day is near for all pirates. Piracy is a crime and you will be prosecuted for your crimes. Tell your excuses to the beaks and see how well that works for U.
@tebow and the likes:
You write like you are paid puppets of some greedy multinational corporations!
YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE!
Information wants to be free and these copyright laws only restrict and suppress this free flow of information.
As if these corporations have not earned enough profits behind our backs.
And tebow, if your sister died in such a bad way then you are the person that dishonors her memory having such priorities!To defend such cold greed corporations that only interest in money and not for the human life.But obviously you are paid to write such horrible opinions.(it is not secret that these greedy multinationals pay for persons to defend their antisocial stance) Otherwise you are worse that this.
You are an unpaid volunteer who defend the monstrous profits of copyright MAFIAA.
I say it is indeed time for their paycheck!
Enough with corporations like microsoft (who sell bits of bytes that we are not allowed to own or share while there is Linux and opensource), enough with the Hollywood crap, enough with the bribed politicians who vote laws that are against the social good.
INFORMATION WILL STAY FREE NO MATTER THE IRRATIONAL LAWS THAT VOTE THE CORRUPTED POLITICIANS!
IT IS THE INTERNET STUPID!
The copyright content is U.S. owner based. End of discussion.
What this article has missed is the tenuous link to the US. The site is hosted in the Netherlands, it does not have any US content... it simply has the TLD ".com". The US ICE have come out and said, quite literally and bluntly, that because .com's authoritative DNS is Verisign, a company within the US, that is enough for them to initiate extradition procedures [source: BBC]. So, basically, if you have a .com TLD, live in a country with a lax extradition treaty with the US and have anything on that domain that the US doesn't like, you'll be seeing the inside of a US prison most ricky tick. Another fantastic example of US domestic legislature being enforced on sovereign foreign soil.
My sister died in a car crash last year you bastard!
Doing your Mama ain't very bright but it's not unusual for the ghetto rats. At least at the Iron Bar Hotel you'll get three means a day unless Bubba takes it away from you and feeds you the shaft. Phuck around, go to prison. That's the real deal.
Copyright laws around the world are in place to prosecute criminals who chose to pirate.
It has become shamefully obvious that our governments are controlled by corporations. Our politicians are "drinking the kool aid" and buying in to a corporate definition of piracy that is merely communication and sharing between non comercial individuals. File sharing is actually not piracy. Linking to content on the web is not piracy. Do you think SOPA will be passed in the US? I know it will. How do I know this? Simple, just follow the money. The movie/TV/Music industries are contributing huge sums of money to US congressmen. They represent 10% of all political contributions to ALL SITTING CONGRESSMEN. The US government is for sale. The US government is corrupt and has been taken from the people. The 99% are being shafted by the 1% who use their wealth to ensure they will become wealthier and the 99% will become poorer. Power to the people! We need a revolution now. I thought OWS was the start, but it seems to have fizzled out. We need to take back our government and make it work for the people again and not just work for corporate interests. We are falling down the slippery slope so fast I cannot see the top anymore. God help us all.
Pirate and pay the price.
Isnt it nice to see these laws rushed in to help extradite terrorists arn't being abused.