The United States will not hesitate to ask for extradition as a non-American .com – or .just-website is in the eyes of the American justice system guilty would make to the offering in the US of illegal content.
That has Erik Barnett, director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, opposite the British newspaper The Guardian said. Barnett argues that even linking to illegal material from a website .com – or .net-domain name for some reason cannot have been to in the U.S. a criminal case to begin with, even though the web server where the site is not running in the United States. According to Barnett is the only criterion for prosecution of foreigners can acquire a domain name with the registrar that Verisign is registered, what with all .com – and .just addresses the case.
The statements of Barnett following the seizure of domain names by the ICE during “Operation in Our Sites”, which was commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security. In total, the domain names of 125 websites using Verisign seized.
One of the first victims was the website tvshack.net which links to movies and tv-series on other sites. The 23-year-old Richard O’dwyer, the owner of the site, now fears extradition to the US, even if it is linking to illegal material on other web sites in the United Kingdom may not even prohibited.