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That's irrelevant. Switzerland (for example) isn't going to arrest Zuckerberg and put him in jail for this either.

Nobody will.

But if you're operating a site called Pirate Bay or something like that and it's not earning billions of dollars, expect countries to chase you across the globe trying to arrest you.




If there were a criminal prosecution for willful copyright infringement in some non-US country an extradition request for the relevant people is not an impossibility though, and there would be no legal reason to deny it.




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