Last year Richard O’Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that listed user-submitted link to TV-shows. The UK student has since fought a looming extradition to the US, but thus far without success. In March, Home Secretary Theresa May officially approved the extradition request from US authorities. The controversial extradition based on alleged copyright infringements is now awaiting an appeal to the High Court later this year. However, if it’s up to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales it won’t get that far. Today, Wales launched a petition on Change.org asking the UK’s Home Secretary to stop the extradition

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Wikipedia Founder Protests Extradition of “Pirating” UK Student