It's ridiculous that this is what people need to do to help others, but that's what ridiculous laws and circus courts get you.
It's ridiculous that this is what people need to do to help others, but that's what ridiculous laws and circus courts get you.
> ..[The 23-year-old student] allegedly earned tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) through advertising on the TVShack website before it was closed down by US authorities.
> The student would be the first British citizen extradited for such an offence. He faces jail if found guilty of the charges, which were brought after a crackdown by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
> His lawyer had argued in court that the website did not store copyright material itself and merely directed users to other sites, making it similar to Google.
> The lawyer also argued that his client was being used as a "guinea pig" for copyright law in the United States.
https://phys.org/news/2012-03-britain-student-extradition-we...
Seems he now runs a software biz.