iain connor from pinsent masons said, "it appears that u.s. copyright owners are seeking to rely on the extradition act and the u.s. case law to secure a prosecution for the authorisation of copyright infringement by the provision of links to infringing content. " he observed that "u.s. companies are likely to try and secure a conviction in the u.s. where they know that they could succeed on the basis of an offence of "authorising copyright infringement"", and that in the uk "the only case where this was looked at was the 'tv links' case" where it had proved unsuccessful."