Long arm of US law reaches Australia
Hew Griffiths has been in prison in Australia for nearly three years for allegedly breaching US copyright law. He has been charged by a grand jury in the US, but the offences alleged against him have never been tested, and the Australian Government has refused to resist an American demand to “surrender” him to face trial before the US District Court in Virginia.
Griffiths was born in England and has lived in Australia from the age of 7. His crime was breaching US copyright law via software piracy. The trouble is that Griffiths has never set foot in the US. He has lived all his life in Australia on the NSW Central Coast. He has been in custody for the past three years (he is 44 now) awaiting moves to extradite him to the US.
[Griffiths has already served more time on remand and awaiting extradition than anyone has served for a similar offence. Furthermore, the US authorities say they will not credit Griffiths with the time served.]
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