Obama says he will help unemployed engineer find job during video 'hangout' | World news. Barack Obama has promised to help an unemployed engineer find a job during an online video "hangout" answering questions posted on YouTube and by text. The president responded to some of more than 133,000 questions submitted ranging from a number about the economy to foreign aid, drone strikes and the case of a British man the US is attempting to extradite over alleged breach of copyright law. Five people were selected to ask their questions live and put "Obama in the hot seat" in the forum arranged by Google Plus.
Obama was pressed repeatedly on the economy, including questions by Jennifer Weddel, a mother from Texas, who wanted to know why the government continued to issue work visas for foreigners when her husband, an engineer, can't find a job. He has been out of work for three years. The president said visas were only issued to people with skills needed in the US. "There's a huge demand around the country for engineers," said Obama. Weddel replied: "I'll have to take you up on that. " Theresa May confirms extradition of TVShack founder Richard O'Dwyer | UK news. Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O'Dwyer, 23. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA The home secretary, Theresa May, has signed an extradition order to send the TVShack founder, Richard O'Dwyer, to the US to stand trial for alleged copyright offences. O'Dwyer, 23, set up the website, which the American authorities claim hosted links to pirated copyrighted films and television programmes.
May's decision comes as David Cameron arrives in Washington to meet Barack Obama. It is expected that the UK-US extradition agreement and the case of Gary McKinnon, accused or hacking, will be raised on the margins. A Home Office spokesman said May took the decision after "carefully considering all relevant matters". Westminster district magistrates court cleared the way for the Sheffield Hallam University student's extradition in January when it ruled there were no remaining statutory bars to his removal. O'Dwyer's mother, Julia, from Chesterfield, said he had been "sold down the river". Wikipedia's founder calls for Richard O'Dwyer extradition to be stopped | UK news. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has made a rare political intervention to call on Theresa May to stop the extradition of British student Richard O'Dwyer to the US for alleged copyright offences. Launching an online campaign, Wales said O'Dwyer, 24, was the "human face" of a global battle over the interests of the film and TV industries and the wider public, which came to a head in the global outcry against the proposed US legislation, Sopa and Pipa, cracking down on copyright infringement.
O'Dwyer, a multimedia student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces up to 10 years in a US prison for founding TVShack.net, a crowdsourced site linking to places to watch full TV shows and movies online. "When I met Richard, he struck me as a clean-cut, geeky kid. Still a university student, he is precisely the kind of person we can imagine launching the next big thing on the internet," Wales wrote in a comment article for the Guardian. • Jimmy Wales's petition against Richard O'Dwyer's extradition here. Richard O'Dwyer's legal position: questions and answers | UK news.
What charges does Richard O'Dwyer face in the US? Two charges: criminal infringement of copyright and conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Each carries a maximum prison term of five years. Is copyright infringement illegal under UK law? People can only be extradited for acts illegal in both countries. In the UK, copyright violations are an offence under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The maximum penalty under UK law for such an offence is six months imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000. What is O'Dwyer's defence? O'Dwyer cannot present an in-depth response to the allegations he faces during his extradition cases, as these need only prove he has a case to answer and the actions, if found guilty, would be illegal in both jurisdictions.
However, his supporters say as his site's content was user-generated, and only linked to – rather than hosting – videos, it would in their view not fall foul of US (or UK) law. What are the controversies around US/UK extradition? Tom Watson adds voice to campaign to stop Richard O'Dwyer extradition | UK news. Labour MP Tom Watson, who in his role on the Commons culture and media select committee was one of the driving forces behind the investigation into phone hacking at News International, has spoken out against the extradition of UK student Richard O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer, a 24-year-old who is studying at Sheffield Hallam university, faces up to 10 years in a US prison for setting up TVShack.net, a website linking to places to watch TV online.
Criminal copyright infringement carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison in the UK. Watson's intervention comes as a petition launched in the Guardian by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has garnered more than 26,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Watson warned extraditing O'Dwyer was an example of a younger generation being "hung out to dry by lawmakers", and warned it could undermine public confidence in the US/UK Extradition Act. "Somewhere behind this case lie the powerful vested interests of the content industry.
Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition | UK news. Richard O'Dwyer talks about his case. Link to video: Richard O'Dwyer's extradition looms over copyright infringement claims Richard O'Dwyer, a 22-year-old Sheffield undergraduate studying multimedia, rose uncharacteristically early for a student on 29 November 2010, in preparation for a lecture later that morning. So the knock on the door of his small hall of residence room before 7am didn't wake him – but he was far from prepared for what would come next. On the other side of the door waited two officers from the City of London police, accompanied by two leather-jacketed men from the US Immigration and Customs Executive (ICE). O'Dwyer's next two years were about to take a dramatic turn for the worse. What brought the ICE agents to O'Dwyer's door was his role in setting up a small website, TVshack.net, linking to sites where people could watch US TV and movies online.
In his first big interview, O'Dwyer tells how he became the unlikely poster boy of the 21st century's culture war. Richard O'Dwyer's extradition looms over copyright infringement claims - video interview | UK news. Richard O'Dwyer extradition: webchat with Julia O'Dwyer | UK news. Richard O'Dwyer faces charges of criminal infringement of copyright and conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian The campaign against the extradition of 24-year-old Richard O'Dwyer has gained more high profile support in the past few days, including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Labour MP Tom Watson. The Sheffield Hallam multimedia student faces two charges in the US of criminal infringement of copyright and conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. The charges relate to his role in setting up TVshack.net, a website linking to sites where people could watch US TV and movies online.
His mother Julia, a community nurse working with terminally-ill children, has led a campaign against the extradition of her son and others to the US. At 1pm BST on Tuesday, she came online to answer your comments and questions about her campaigning and her son's experience. Richard O'Dwyer petition hits 160,000 signatures | UK news. Richard O’Dwyer faces up to 10 years in US prison for alleged copyright offences relating to TVShack.net. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images A petition launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to halt the extradition to the US of Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O'Dwyer has garnered 160,000 signatures in less than five days.
O'Dwyer, 24, faces up to 10 years in US prison for alleged copyright offences relating to TVShack.net, a website that provided links to places where users could watch TV shows and films online. Wales's petition, which calls on the home secretary, Theresa May, to revoke her permission to extradite O'Dwyer, has picked up more than 75,000 signatures in the last 24 hours alone after being circulated among US supporters of Change.org. The petition is now the fastest-growing Change.org petition in the UK. Graham Linehan, the writer of sitcoms The IT Crowd, Black Books and Father Ted, also signed the petition. Student who ran TV website in extradition battle with US - Home News - UK.
Richard O'Dwyer, 23, is fighting efforts by the US authorities to have him stand trial in America. Prosecutors accuse him of infringing copyright and of conspiracy to infringe a copyright, over his website TVShack, which offered links to other sites providing pirated content online. Westminster Magistrates Court heard yesterday that he could face 10 years in jail if convicted. But his lawyer Ben Cooper argued that there was no reason for his client to be taken away from his home and family to face the charges when he could be prosecuted in the UK if necessary. He told the court: "Mr O'Dwyer is a young man yet to complete his degree and his social environment would be removed from him. That is going to impact on his reaction to finding himself surrounded by the sort of people who will inhabit a federal detention centre in New York.
The treaty was also criticised after it emerged that nine times as many British citizens have been extradited as Americans. Student to face US trial over TVShack website - Crime - UK. Richard O’Dwyer, whose site TVShack made more than £150,000 in advertising revenues, according to US prosecutors, is thought to be the first person to be extradited to America on such charges. If convicted in New York, he faces jail. Speaking after the hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court, the 23-year-old said he feels like a “guinea pig” for the US justice system.
His lawyer argued that his site hosted no illegal content but merely directed users to where it was held online, and said that his client will appeal against the extradition ruling. Asked outside the court if he thought websites that link to other sites should be open to prosecution, Mr O’Dwyer said: “I think you should ask Google the same question, on a much grander scale.” He added: “I am obviously disappointed with the judge’s decision today. I think I have got faith in the High Court for making the right decision.” The Sheffield Hallam student was arrested by City of London Police in September 2010 and bailed. Clegg is silent over computer student facing deportation to US - UK Politics - UK. Mr O'Dwyer, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, close to the Deputy Prime Minister's constituency, faces up to 10 years in jail for running a website which, it is said, enabled visitors to download pirated films and TV programmes – even though he has not committed a criminal offence in the UK.
Mr Clegg, who in opposition campaigned against the extradition to the US of computer hacker Gary MacKinnon, set up a review panel in November, headed by Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Liberal Democrat leader and QC, to look into the "asymmetric" extradition arrangements between the US and UK. These were originally intended to deal with terrorists. The Deputy Prime Minister has in the past called the treaty "lopsided", and has privately questioned a Government-commissioned review into the arrangements.
Yet Mr Clegg remained silent on Mr O'Dwyer's case last night. Sabina Frediani, campaigns co-ordinator for Liberty, said: "Imagine your child is safe and sound using their computer at home? Hacker 'in terror' over extradition - Crime - UK. Janis Sharp said the treatment of her son, who admits hacking into military computers but claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs, was "barbaric". This afternoon, she met supporters outside Number 10 to hand over poems of support for her son to mark the 10th anniversary of his first arrest. She urged Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue with US president Barack Obama when the two leaders meet at the White House next month.
Ms Sharp said: "Ten years have gone by and still Gary lives in a nightmare world - unable to control the terror that consumes his every waking moment. "This endless pressure on an Aspergic man with severe mental health issues is barbaric. "And for what? A foolish act that caused embarrassment to the US. Where has our sense of proportion gone? " She told reporters on Downing Street: "He can't deal with it. "His mental health has deteriorated and it's ruined our lives. " And Ms Sharp said her son does not have an outlet because he cannot use a computer. 'It is not a crime here, and he has never been to America' - hei-fi-entertainment - hei-fi. So when officers from the City of London police launched simultaneous raids on the family home and Richard's digs in November 2010 in search of "the trappings of wealth", she was understandably astonished.
"Richard just had his student room and they said: 'Well, he's got nothing, has he? ' I said: 'No, he hasn't. He's got his laptop, his computer that you have taken, his camera and his phone,'" she says. "They came looking for Mr Big and they found Mr Stupid Student.
" Mr O'Dwyer had unwittingly incurred the wrath of the mighty multibillion-dollar United States movie and entertainment industry after launching a website called TVShack which offered links to films and television shows. By the time the authorities became interested in the operation, Mr O'Dwyer was studying interactive media at Sheffield Hallam University and earning enough money from his site to run a second-hand car.
Luckily he has got his mother fighting his corner. Paul Vallely: Our extradition treaty is plainly unjust - Commentators - Opinion. A couple of days later, extradition was back in the headlines when the High Court temporarily blocked the removal from Britain of the British businessman accused of arranging the contract killing of his bride on their honeymoon in Cape Town in 2010. Two judges ruled that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to order the man to face trial in South Africa because he is mentally unfit. It is as well to remember those cases when reflecting on the new Home Affairs Select Committee report which says an overhaul in UK extradition laws are needed to restore faith in the system. Of particular concern, it says, are the lopsided arrangement with the United States which mean it is "easier to extradite a British citizen to the USA than vice versa".
There have been several cases which give cause for concern. Christopher Tappin, a 65-year-old retired businessman from Orpington, is facing a 35-year sentence for allegedly selling batteries that would ultimately end up in Iranian missiles. Hackers hit the Home Office site - UK Politics - UK. Mother hits out as Government sends British student Richard O'Dwyer to US for trial - Crime - UK. Richard O’Dwyer faces ten years in jail if convicted by a US court after prosecutors accused him of breaking copyright law by providing access to pirated material online via his website TVShack. His mother Julia O’Dwyer accused the government of “paving the way” for American prosecutors to come for the “young, old and the ill” as the news emerged. She added: “Today, yet another British citizen is being sold down the river by the British Government.
Richard’s life, his studies, work opportunities, financial security, is being disrupted, for who knows how long, because the UK Government has not introduced the much needed changes to the extradition law. “If Richard appears to have committed a crime in this country, then try him in this country. “It’s disgusting. Next time it may be your son. Mr O’Dwyer, 23, allegedly made £147,000 running his site. Mrs O’Dwyer said: “I don’t blame America. 'Pirate site' student in final appeal - Crime - UK.
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