Big Content's latest antipiracy weapon: extradition

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45 points·timwiseman··4 comments

The article repeatedly mentions O'Dwyer's lack of connection to the USA. Isn't the connection clearly the American ownership of the content he's accused of infringing (I have no comment on whether simply aggregating links to it actually constitutes a crime).

Maybe it's a stretch, but the analogy I can concoct is: someone steals something from an American and a British person assists the thief in fencing the item to some non-American and takes a cut for his services (like the ad revenue).

No, the analogy is someone steals something from an American, while the American is in the UK. That gets tried in a UK court.

No, wait. Someone steals something from an American while in the UK. This 23 year old publishes a list of where to buy stolen goods in the UK. That gets tried in a UK court too.

No, try again. Someone steals something from an American while in the UK. This 23 year old publishes a list of where to buy stolen goods in the UK. Someone takes a copy of this list to the US. The US then tries to extradite the 23 year old because someone brought a copy of his list to the US.

If the "make available" doesn't hold water, how does "make available a list of places that are making available"?

(Answer: because it doesn't have to. The DoJ is a for-rent organization)

Don't spend any money on US movies. Not that hard, because so many are terrible these days anyway. There are fantastic European and Asian films as alternatives too.

I think that headline sucks. (yes, you arstechnica editors.)

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