@Bruizer That said, you are also presenting the white washed story of TV-Shack. You can argue till you are blue in the face that "TV-Shack" was fully legal but it was fundamentally unethical (and questionable on legal). It was a center of allowing the outright theft of intelectual property owned by others. If Richard ODwyer thought the TV-Shack was a "good idea" and had no issue with it, then a trip through the justice system might educate him and do him some good.
Yes - and no. What he did was illegal in the US but he was not in the US when he made the site but in the UK, the server was in Sweden. If he murders a US citizen in the UK is he to be held accountable by the US legal department or the UK legal department? Obviously the jurisdiction the crime took place in would have precedent.
The whole case sets a very bad precedent.
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