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Big Contents latest antipiracy weapon: extradition

Richard O’Dwyer ran a “link site” that helped users find free movies and TV shows, many of them infringing. The 23-year-old is fighting extradition and seeking a trial in the United Kingdom instead of the United States. The case is likely to become a new focal point in the ongoing global debate over who has jurisdiction to try crimes committed wholly online. The focus of the debate has increasingly shifted overseas, and copyright interests are pushing for the passage of the PROTECT IP Act that would draft various intermediaries, including DNS providers, into the fight against such sites.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/big-content-unveils-latest-antipiracy-weapon-extradition/

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