Apart from the general ridiculousness of the US extraditing copyright infringers but not pedophiles:
Do the Brits really not have any outrage over this? If the PRC successfully extradited an American for some real or imagined digital crime (say, building and hosting the website of a designated terrorist organization), we'd be in an uproar.
Us Brits just sit there and take this nonsense. If we protest or even riot, then its just merely criminals and that's that. Any "reasons" become mere "excuses", and thus dismissed. As a nation we are quite happy to sleep walk in to almost anything. Of course, when we do protest on mass, say, over 1,000,000 people marching against the Iraq war, we are just simply ignored.
We have our own SOPA on the way, possibly worse. It will sail through. Im sure we will soon have special chartered extradition planes making daily flights to ship people over to the US. The return flights will of course be empty.
Heh, just to keep Hollywood's out dated and obsolete business model in tact. Yup, the US government will prop up Hollywood using US tax payers money in the legal system. Nice little "socialist" hand out right there.
Brits have been complaining about this ever since the treaty was signed. I think generally we're currently more concerned about changes to our health system.
Actually, given the harshness of the penal system in every aspect including their plea-bargaining facet, the US may as well be the PRC compared to the EU. Also, like the PRC, the US has the death penalty.
Separately, there should be a public interest requirement on extraditions, whether by treaty or otherwise, just like there is on all other parts of the UK justice system.
This is a travesty to the individuals involved in this and many other UK-to-US extraditions and yet another embarrassment to the UK.
Do the Brits really not have any outrage over this? If the PRC successfully extradited an American for some real or imagined digital crime (say, building and hosting the website of a designated terrorist organization), we'd be in an uproar.
At least, I hope we would...