I can't be shipped to a foreign country for circumventing copy protection because I don't do it commercially and do it exclusively for interoperability and security research, which are exceptions to the anti-circumvention laws we have in the US.
On the other hand, Canadians for years flaunted a loophole in Canadian/US law to sell DirecTV circumvention hardware to US customers. Message board geeks the world over said, "those are just signals traveling through the air! Signals traveling through the air can't be anyone's property!" I guess I have a hard time arguing with that point, but I don't lose sleep over not taking those people seriously.
Reminder: we're discussing a guy who made six figures running a website specifically designed and intended to get people to pirated first-run movies. Sorry, but the distinction between "links" and "actual media frames" is not an important one in UK law or US law. Nobody is being extradited for links on their Tumblr pages.
Those are only exceptions in the US. The USTR has been pushing other countries to make their laws even stronger than ours. Then they do the two-step and push to strengthen our laws to match.
Please note that I'm not arguing that this is some kind of abuse of process. If anything, I'm worried because it's perfectly normal and that will make reform that much more difficult.
On the other hand, Canadians for years flaunted a loophole in Canadian/US law to sell DirecTV circumvention hardware to US customers. Message board geeks the world over said, "those are just signals traveling through the air! Signals traveling through the air can't be anyone's property!" I guess I have a hard time arguing with that point, but I don't lose sleep over not taking those people seriously.
Reminder: we're discussing a guy who made six figures running a website specifically designed and intended to get people to pirated first-run movies. Sorry, but the distinction between "links" and "actual media frames" is not an important one in UK law or US law. Nobody is being extradited for links on their Tumblr pages.