The student has never been to America in all his life, yet the laws in Britain has allowed America to grab anyone from anywhere in Britain, and try them.
Surely not! That's the most retarded part of it all: people who can, and want, to contribute to the US economy are not welcome in. Now, someone who pissed off some small-time mafioso running some shitty movie studio? Oh yeah! Bring them in, try them here and spend a ridiculous amount of money and effort to punish them!
Tax payers should be breaking things over stuff like this.
Free ticket to the US + a possible free vacation = win! :-)
But seriously, if he gets extradited, he still needs to be tried by a US court, where a judge may decide that this is all too crazy and drop the charges.
Best of all, everything (including the prison, which is pretty expensive) is paid by US taxpayers - who's the sucker now?