extradition for crimes against commerciality

This is astonishing; i had no idea that the Australian Federal Government had handed over an Australian citizen to be tried in the USA. A member of the software-cracking group ‘drink or die’ which delighted in redistributing illegal working copies of US softwares, faces ten years in US prison plus fines of half a million US dollars.

Stephen told me, and he read it in The Age. Ouch!

This is after the same disturbingly reactionary government leaves David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay for Five Fears Without Charge. Has the Island Continent officially become the 52nd State of the USA? Do we not have copyright laws of our own?

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