ICE seeking extraditions of foreign website owners

[Joly MacFie]

http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=2310

Peter Walker of UK newspaper The Guardian
reports<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution>
that
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is looking to
extradite owners of websites it believes are breaking US copyrights – even
if their servers are not based in America or are legal in their own
countries. The rationale is that the use of generic top level domain names
like .com and .net, administered by Verisign in the US, provides “nexus”
thus giving them jurisdiction. At issue is the case of tvshack.net – a
linking site run by an English student Richard O’Dwyer. The domain already
was seized by ICE. O’Dwyer now faces extradition. Walker quotes ICE
Assistant director Erik Barnett:

 “Without wishing to get into the particulars of any case, the general goal
of law enforcement is to arrest and prosecute individuals who are committing
crimes. That is our goal, our mission. The idea is to try to prosecute.”

On linking:

 “I’ll give you an analogy. A lot of drug dealing is done by proxy – you
rarely give the money to the same person that you get the dope from. I think
the question is, are any of these people less culpable?”

 In England there are calls to amend the extradition agreement with the US
so that a UK judge can decide jurisdiction on individual cases..

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