Kim Dotcom Offers the DoJ a Deal

Master Moose sends this quote from Stuff.co.nz: "Kim Dotcom claims the United States criminal case against him is collapsing but he is offering to go there without extradition provided federal authorities unfreeze his millions of dollars. In a now hallmark style, he made the offer on Twitter. 'Hey DOJ, we will go to the US,' he tweeted, 'No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & living expenses.' In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Dotcom says the department knows it does not have a case. 'If they are forced to provide discovery, then there will be no extradition. That's why they don't want to provide discovery. If they had a case, they would not need to hide what they have.'"

Comments

Re:If they have no case...

[AK Marc]

Don't care or know him well enough to call him a douche though.

People who come up with a simple idea and make millions/billions off it are often "hated". Whether it's Facebook, or buying DOS from IBM and selling it back to them at a profit, or hosting a sharing site, if you make it big with an easy thing that anyone could do, they'll hate you because you did it and not them. He's apparently not a douche in person, though he understands the rules and chooses to break them, which pisses off many, to no end.

Re:This case is a joke.

[philip.paradis]

Copyright infringement is still illegal, and in the United States profiting from it under specific circumstances carries criminal penalties. Your attempt at misdirection is transparent, and your apparent level of understanding of the actual roles ISPs and power companies play is either deeply ignorant, or you're simply knowingly creating horribly flawed analogies. As soon as you're ready to show us how you could conceivably use any case law to demonstrate a means for hauling ISPs and power companies into court for criminal prosecution over the topic at hand, please let us know.