prosecute." In Our Sites has already prompted controversy elsewhere, with a Spanish company launching a lawsuit after two of its sports streaming sites were seized, even though they had been found not to contravene copyright law in Spain. Barnett defended the decision to also go after linking sites: "I'll give you an analogy. A lot of drug dealing is done by proxy -- you rarely give the money to the same person that you get the dope from. I think the question is, are any of these people less culpable?" Civil rights and internet freedom organisations said they were alarmed at the apparent intention to enforce US copyright laws around the globe. Isabella Sankey, director of policy for Liberty, said: "Many countries, including the US, are increasingly asserting jurisdiction over alleged actions that take place in other parts of the world. The internet increases our risk of falling foul of the law, making it possible to commit an offence on the other side of the world without even leaving your bedroom." She called on the government to amend the UK's extradition agreement with the US so a British judge could decide where an alleged crime should be best tried. "It would allow UK courts to bar extradition in the interests of justice where conduct leading to an alleged offence has quite clearly taken place on British soil," she said. Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group , which campaigns on web-based freedoms, said that domain names such as