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+1 - this is a childish move and bad business imo. I'd guess the author is pretty young.
Anyone today familiar with goatse is likely to be well into their thirties at least.
I am absolutely not a lawyer, but I wouldn't do something like this for fear of falling afoul of anti-obscenity laws. For instance, the UK has a cyberflashing law which allots a two year custodial sentence for sending a graphic image (by any means) with intent to cause distress.
It’s not worth worrying about such extreme what-if cases. If the Feds were so determined to destroy an innocent person in a kangaroo court, there’s easier ways of doing so. They could plant CSAM on the server. They could coerce an informant to accuse you of SA (like they did to Assange).
Realistically, the worst sanction this dev could reasonably expect, is to have their domain taken down. That’s what happened to the OG .cx domain, after all…
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Why would the US extradite
The lack of extradition doesn't prevent the British courts from operating. It's not like you can escape punishment by just avoiding physically going to court. If you refuse to show up, you'll probably lose by default. How much impact that has depends on the relationship between the websites owners and the UK, but extradition isn't strictly necessary.
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The isps can pretty easily set up a cache for things that are popular. There was a time when I worked for an ISP consultancy, where Netflix would literally give ISPs a prebuilt cache server iirc for free, and that was a win win for everyone. I shouldn’t be surprised that some shitty isp thinks it’s easier to hard link, but making a cache isn’t that hard.
A couple of years ago, the main submarine link connecting my country to the internet was damaged, and internet basically slowed to a crawl for a day. Could barely open anything. But Netflix was running at full HD with no problem. So they must have had local cache's with the ISPs.
source: I used to work at Akamai (it was a while ago). The myriad things they do with their edge servers is pretty amazing, but for simple CDN stuff, most of the time clients aren't shipping hardware to isps. That being said, if Netflix can convince an isp to pay its electricity and hardware maintenance costs for a popular isp's customers that's going to pay for itself very quickly. So, i can see why Netflix offers this. It's just not normal AFAIK.