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Originally Posted by Iphinome
I was under the impression that you can't extradite from something that isn't illegal where the person to be extradited is. For example you can't extradite someone in the US to Thailand for lese-majesty since it isn't illegal here.
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You can't - it needs to be illegal in both places. But it's not clear that linking to copyrighted material is necessarily legal in the UK, although certain other criminal cases involving linking have been dismissed in the UK. I don't know enough about the other cases to know to what extent they were different - the linking in this case may have been more blatant or more focused on copyrighted material, for example. Apparently the site made $230,000 in the 10 months it was in operation.