Peter Martin of the Canberra Times writes about the largely unreported story of an Australian who was extradited to the US and given a prison sentence for intellectual property theft. He also received a $700,000 fine despite the fact that he never made money out of his crime. Now, people can debate the impact of  this sort of crime and the punishment it deserves, but for me the big issue is that an Australian can be extradited to another country and tried under their law for a crime committed in Australia. This, it seems, is one of the “benefits” of our Free Trade Agreement with the USA. Take note that this man had never even set foot on US soil, meanwhile the US Navy are trying to get custody of one of their sailors who was arrested in Australia for grooming an underage girl for sex over the internet (actually a police officer posing as a 14 year old).