Saturday 18 June 2011

UK student faces extradition to US over file-sharing site

A British computer science undergraduate is facing extradition to the United States after being accused of criminal copyright infringement.23-year-old Richard O'Dwyer, of Sheffield Hallam University, ran the TVShack website, which offered links to illegal downloads of popular TV shows and movies, until November last year.However, the site did not host any files and under UK law he could be protected. A case against the TV-Links website in 2010 was dismissed after a judge found that simply

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