Your child has been arrested

[punistation]

Saudi Arabian officers have come to your home and arrested your daughter for breaking their decency laws. She will be extradited to Saudi Arabia to face trial and conviction.

The Saudis wish to thank America once again for setting precedent. If it's a crime over THERE, you can be arrested for it over HERE.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21956733-663,00.html

[silverweb]

1. Correct article available?

Your link is to an article about an Australian extradited for running an international internet piracy scam.

A search of the site with key word "Saudi" brings up nothing similar to what your OP suggests.

Do you have another link or clarification?

[MonkeyFunk]

4. The OP

is making the incorrect assumption that because Australia extradited someone to the US, it somehow gives Saudi Arabia the right to arrest US citizens here.

He is, of course, profoundly wrong.

[silverweb]

15. That's what I was afraid of.

But I didn't want to assume such without offering an opportunity for clarification.

Thanks for confirming my first opinion.

[Mythsaje]

2. They better come armed for bear.

Cuz they're going to need it.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. Your concern is misplaced...

He was arrested by local authorities and extradited to the US. It happens every day.

[punistation]

5. Not quite

"He was arrested by local authorities and extradited to the US."

...for breaking AMERICAN laws.

Have you broken any of Zimbabwe's laws lately? If so, can they come to your house and arrest you for it?

[slampoet]

11. An he was treated exactly like Noriega?

Panama and Noriega seem to be the precident for this.

[MonkeyFunk]

13. No

extradition existed long before Noriega.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. Not quite what?

What was wrong in my post?


extradition has been around for a very long time.

It happens all the time.

[oscarmitre]

6. This is similar to the banker case in Britain

It seems to be a one-way street though. You can come and get ours but we can't come and get yours.

[trumad]

7. Are you F'ing kidding me...

So what you're saying is just because you live in another country, you can set up shop and pirate anything you want?

Bullshit!

[Name removed]

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[FreakinDJ]

9. He deserves all the time he gets

Fuck that guy - hope he gets 20 years

He USES KIDS to help him set up websites and pirate the videos, software, and music

[gollygee]

10. If he was shipping these pirated items here, he was breaking our laws

If the pirated items were being brought into the US, then that would be relevant to US courts. Going over the internet instead of in a boat doesn't make it any less illegal.

[mondo joe]

14. Wasn't the person in question stealing from American companies?

I don't see your analogy.

[mudesi]

16. The whole issue of piracy is ridiculous

Information should be free.

[pitohui]

17. so information creators and workers should be your slaves?

sorry as we say in these parts lincoln freed the slaves

when you do your job for free come back and tell me how i should do my job for free

[wuushew]

18. In what way is an artificially maintained business model and slavery comparable?

It seems to me in some ways you are making the same argument that railroad personnel did after dieselization eliminated the need for some positions required for steam locomotives.


A dollar not spent on something that could be had for free is a dollar that will be invariably spent somewhere else in the economy. That expenditure will generate economic activity and employment just as real as those made by pedaling music.