Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:52:07PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, John Hasler wrote:
Gunnar Wolf writes:
...Or get him extradited somehow.
Extradition has nothing to do with civil lawsuits.
Hey, copyright infringement is a crime these days...
And the US has obtained extradition treaties for it and is using
them. I've lost my reference on that one, sorry.
And there is one case of the US actively pursuing the extradition of an
alleged software pirate living in Australia. The guy has apparently
spent 18 months in Australian jails so far fighting the extradition.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/griffithsIndict.htm seems to
have been co-written by a Michael Chertoff.
More on the associated cases is avaiable from
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ob/OBMain.htm
In another case, Maksym Kovalchuk from Ukraine has been arrested in
Thailand and extradited to US on similar charges in 2003/2004.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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