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Originally Posted by markbot
If a US citizen in the US breaks an English law over the net...she would also get extradited to England. So I don't see what the issue is. The guy was facilitating piracy. If he were facilitating the piracy of English IP he would be tried in England. Since the IP was American...he is tried in the US. Justice is blind. It doesn't matter whether he is elderly or whether he is or isn't American.
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The argument is that the standard of proof required is not the same in the two directions.
It is much easier for the US to get extradition of a UK citizen than vice versa.