Richard O'Dwyer is a 23 year old computer student and citizen of the United Kingdom. He set up and ran the wildly successful TVshack website from his bedroom. His site provided links to copyrighted material. It is reported that he did not himself host any of the material on any servers. His website is not illegal in England. But he was arrested anyways on November 9, 2010. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement folks were apparently the ones to file the charges. A judge over there last week approved the extradition. Richard O'Dwyer's lawyer is planning to appeal the decision.
Richard faces extradition via a reciprocal agreement between Britain and the United States which was designed with terrorists in mind. There is also a rather weird claim that the United States somehow owns or is intimately tied to all domains ending in dot com or dot net (as the original TVshack site did) because they are registered through (I believe is) VeriSign Global Registry Services.
There is also an allegation that CBS through it's very own C/Net website made available downloaders and search tools used for such sites as the BitTorrents, Limewire, and others. And I remember C/Net offering those. The video below talks about a lawsuit being brought by a bunch of artists against CBS for being the main distributor of these tools. Basically, an entertainment mogul is accused of popularizing the P2P (Peer to Peer) websites and now the entertainment moguls via Big Hollywood and the RIAA are crying, "Omgz, you bad pirates are cutting into our profit margin." And thus we have Richard O'Dwyer who is wanted to stand trial for linking to material being offered on the P2P sites that Big Hollywood popularized.
Folks, don't forget Black March 2012. A battle needs to be fought on all fronts. Boycott buying books, vids, and songs during March 2012. And don't go to the movies either.
radical sapphoq says: This is so very very wrong. I am appalled and disgusted that this sort of thing is happening. Twice now in a few weeks. First it was Kim DotCom in New Zealand. And now Richard O'Dwyer.
Folks, we are in serious trouble. Whether you agree or not, please take the time to copy paste some of the links I used in researching this blog post into your browser.
I will be watching for further news on Richard O'Dwyer and if he does indeed land on American soil, I will endeavor to attend his trial if at all possible.
http://www.deadline.com/tag/richard-odwyer/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clegg-is-silent-over-computer-student-facing-deportation-to-us-6289846.html
http://tek-bull.com/2012/01/richard-odwyer-loses-us-extradition-battle-over-copyright-infringement.html
http://escapeesblog.wordpress.com/category/courts/ <--- scroll down to Jan 20
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=extradition
http://youtu.be/PU4unZKNp6k
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115273-British-Student-Loses-Extradition-Battle-Over-Copyright-Violation
http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2012/01/odwyer-loses-extradition-case.html
http://juliasblog-the-fight-of-our-lives.blogspot.com/2012/01/epidode-2-full-of-evidence-from-mike.html?showComment=1327816153913#c2010952248793974574
http://www.friends-extradited.org/
http://www.fairtrials.net/
http://www.filmon.com/cbsyousuck/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087135/Richard-ODwyer-US-extradition-pact-misused-says-Sir-Menzies-Campbell.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://infowebstorm.com/category/personal-liberty/libertarian-issues/ <--- jan 14 scroll down to
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2087120/Richard-ODwyer-Gary-McKinnon-Blatant-misuse-extradition-laws.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2087574/Richard-ODwyer-extradition-A-naive-British-student-facing-10-years-chains.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/tvshack-richard-odwyer-copyright-pirate-281455
http://www.blockaid.me/2012/01/bad-news-for-richard-odwyer/
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Autistic Kids Grow Up...
Christopher DeGroot had autism. Because he reportedly would bolt from the apartment that he lived in with his parents Nicolaas and Agnes, they locked the windows and doors. Because they needed to go do things like feed their horses without their son, they left him alone in the apartment which was secured against his escape into traffic. Their 19 year old son who had severe autism was left alone in
their apartment for several hours a day so they could go do chores. In my opinion,
leaving a severely disabled man alone in an apartment without supervision is wrong
on so many levels. Even if Christopher DeGroot possessed the knowledge of what to
do during an emergency, the deadbolt on the door and the locks on the windows precluded any means to get out. And if he was unable to act during an emergency on
his own behalf due to his disabling condition, he should have had a (hired if necessary) caretaker supervising him in his parents' absence.
On Sunday May 14th, 2006 the apartment did indeed catch on fire. Two family cats were saved. One firefighter was injured. 77K of damage was caused to the apartment building and stuff inside of it. Christopher, then 19, had to be airlifted to a hospital in Portland, Oregon. The burns covered 80% of his body. He died on Friday May 19th, 2006.
Nicolaas and Agnes reported to the police station as requested for questioning. They were charged with first-degree arson and first- or second-degree manslaughter. (Report of the manslaughter charges differ in degree). The fire was thought to be caused by arson, specifically by Nicolaas and Agnes DeGroot setting fire to paper in the middle of the living room floor and then leaving their son to burn while they left to feed the bloody horses.
Yeah, they had their day in court where they (via separate attorneys) were allowed to Alford plea the charges. An Alford plea means that the defendants admit that the State can prove its' case against them, but falls short of admitting any guilt on the part of the defendants. The original charges were pled down to criminal negligent homicide.
Two people testified that Nicolaas and Agnes De Groot were cool and devoted parents. Nice to their autistic son, caring about his needs, blah blah blah. The judge decided that the parents did not intend any bad vibes when they left their severely autistic son alone in the apartment without any supervision. He sentenced Nicolaas and Agnes DeGroot to six months in the county jail.
This is a case that in my opinion should never have been allowed to be Alford plea'd.
Autistic kids do grow up to be autistic adults unless their uh devoted parents kill them.
spike
Parents charged with first-degree arson and first- or second-degree manslaughter:
http://democratherald.com/articles/2006/0
http://www.cityofalbany.net/services/new
Alford pleas and a sentence to six month in the county jail:
http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2008/02/0
Christopher DeGroot
autism
manslaughter
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