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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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But linking to copyright content other people have made available isn't an offence in the UK (yet). That was why the Oink guy was prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud, and later acquited of that charge when it went to trial.