The US wants to take charge of the men from New Zealand to put them on trial for allegedcopyrightinfringement, money laundering, racketeering and other offences.
Last April, Googler-in-Chief Eric Schmidt assured an audience at the Web 2.0 Expo that the issue fueling Viacom's massive lawsuit against his company--alleged copyrightinfringement on YouTube--would become "moot" as soon as Google rolled out a new tool for managing content.
"Over the course of the next several days... our content partners will begin sending notices of alleged peer-to-peer copyrightinfringement to ISPs, and the ISPs will begin forwarding those notices in the form of copyright alerts to consumers, " announced the CCI's executive director Jill Lesser.