UK TV Shack admin won't face trial in US on copyright charges
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The United States government has agreed to defer its controversial prosecution of UK college student Richard O'Dwyer on copyright infringement charges, allowing the UK government to drop the extradition proceedings against him.
"All he'll have to do is fly over to America and appear in court and pay a fine, and then they will basically delay the prosecution forever," said the Guardian's James Ball. "It's a little bit like having it hanging over you, but as long as he doesn't come across them again, he's fine, he clear. That's really good news for him."
The US wants him extradicted so they can lock him up and to avoid that all he has to do is go to the US and sign a paper? That really sounds like one big trap. The whole case is ridiculous anyway: links are a core element of the Internet. I really would like the US to sue Google for linking to copyrighted material too.