British Piracy student can be extradited to U.S.

[BigBlueBalls]

Uni student up on US organised crime laws. What happened to the Napster kid?

 

[Matt Damon]

Uni student up on US organised crime laws. What happened to the Napster kid?

Was put into bankruptcy.

Legal precedents and changes to the law have occurred since then too.

In 2001 they were debating criminal prosecution of the founders of Napster

See a commentary in the American University Law Review here
http://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/50/bailey.pdf?rd=1

 

[GrandOldTeam]

The case was brought by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which claims that the TVShack.net website earned "over $230,000 in advertising revenue" before US authorities obtained a warrant and seized the domain name in June 2010.

I'm in the wrong industry.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Bet he thought he was top dog when he was making thousands from redirecting people to illegal content. Hope he like non-consensual man love.

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Book him Danno...

 

[paulbefc]

Sake. A possible 10 years for this. Bang out of order.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Have they got their hooks into the lad with Aspergers for having a gander at CIA/FBI files about UFO's?

 

[Muggins]

Big Man will be out in a few months, just send him over to the US to get the lad back.