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Originally Posted by HarryT
My understanding is that it became an extraditable offence due to the fact that he'd allegedly earned $230,000 in advertising revenue from the site. That put it into the criminal category, rather than simply being a case of civil copyright infringement.
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There could also probably be an argument about some of that money having come from the US, which might well add an additional nail in the coffin for the guy and it is at least possible, though no idea, that some of the servers, DNS, etc could have at least at some point existed in the US as well.
Most countries will extradite if you break laws in another country "on the other country's soil". So the money coming from the US could well legally put the nail in the coffin that the copyright infringement occured IN the US, at least in part.
Not the severity, but it would be (very tangentially) like if he came to the US, got drunk at age 19, was "caught" and when let out on bail "fled" to the UK and the US was asking extradition for under age drinking (lets assume the US didn't attempt to press "flight to avoid prosecution" charges). The UK might not extradite because of how minor the charges are (not sure on international extradition treaties, minor crimes and misdemeanors might not be extraditable offenses), HOWEVER, he could possibly be extradited even though drinking at 19 is not a crime in the UK. It is a crime in the US, and he commited it "on US soil". So there would be a case for extradition (again, as I mentioned, not sure if under international treatied minor crimes and misdemeanors are extraditable or not).
So if some of the money came from the US, legally he may well have commited the copyright offenses in part "on US soil".