UK Student could face extradition due to his TV Shack website

A British student could face extradition to the US after a Judge ruled it possible, on the grounds of copyright infringement.  Richard O'Dwyer hosted a website named TV Shack, which allowed people to watch TV and films for free.  The bigger issues at stake though are causing uproar in the legal profession and with British citizens themselves.  The first point is that it seems it has now become far too easy for the US to extradite people from Britain after the US-UK Anti-terrorist Treaty had been brought into play. Many people are now arguing that the human rights of the British citizen have now been totally eroded.  Whether O'Dwyer has done something wrong or not should be contested on his home soil, in Britain, and should he be found guilty it would have to be done through the UK legal system.

The other point that people want to bring up is that it only ever seems to be inconsequential people that get targeted for this kind of technology justice.  O'Dwyer's lawyers will argue that search engines like Google in essence, already provide this service, and that simply by entering 'free' anything in its search engine a list of hundreds of links will pop up, pointing you in the direction of the free things, something which O'Dwyer contents that it's all he was doing.

O'Dwyer advertised on his site to be able to offer the free movies and TV programmes, but again it could be contested that Google advertise on it's search results page with sponsored links etc.

IT enthusiasts as well as those in the legal profession are looking on this case as a major deal, with many seeing that Britain is still the soft touch to America.  Indeed, how many times have active terrorists and tyrants been declined extradition to the UK, whilst a British citizen can be whisked out of his country at the drop of a hat it seems?

The full story is here - http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372214/judge-tv-shack-website-owner-can-be-extradited-to-us