Rant number 73
Today on the news, it was announced that another one of our citizens is being extradited to America. His crime? Trying to exploit a loop-hole.
He created the linking site - 'tvlinks' a couple of years back, which may of us (me included) have come across and doubtless used.
For those of you who didn't come across it, it was a collection of links to other sites - where content was held. The content was generally of the TV show/film variety - which is where all the hooha has hoo'd from.
So fair enough - he did - no arguments make it easy for people to access copyright content, but is that a crime? Linking is not copyrighted - so the answer officially is no.
So why the extradition? because the American's don't let things like loopholes get in the way of what they consider justice. Intellectual property is a big thing to them - and to any of us.
And from there point of view - he helped pirates - and I suppose perpetuated them and - to a certain extent spurned them on - its a mess.
What bothers me however, is that - its OK to send one of our guys into the jaws of the beast for a grey area crime, but a confirmed terrorist evil scumbag can't be sent back because of his human rights. What about this lad's human rights? You know the Americans will throw the book at him good and hard - and who's to prevent them?
Why don't we stand by our people a bit more. Yes he was naive and tried to take advantage of a loophole, a warning or a simple stop would surely have been more appropriate than an extradition witch-hunt.
Our government has no spine - another thing that sickens me!
Rant over.
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