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Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz)
BitterOak writes: Kim Dotcom has lost his extradition case in New Zealand, and will now (probably) have to face trial in the U.S. on charges of money laundering, racketeering, and copyright violation. Three of Dotcom's associates face extradition as well. "Although the U.S. didn't need to prove the charge, counsel had to at least prove there was an answerable case overseas to fulfil extradition requirements. Lawyers for the four argued that the court didn't have jurisdiction to order extradition and that copyright law showed they weren't required or expected to filter every single piece of copyrighted material on Mega." Dotcom's lawyers say they plan to appeal, which would see the case reviewed by New Zealand's High Court. All four will remain free on bail in the meantime.
How dare he provide an useful service at a reasonable cost? He's a monster, I tell ya!
Circumcision is child abuse.
Good luck to him.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Soon he'll be off to the USA, to disappear within the US federal justice system on trumped up charges of breaking the law in a country he's never set foot inside of. A warning to the wise, just like it was with the British Empire, break our laws and we will find you no matter where on the globe you reside. USA Law is universal apparently.
It's nice that they're going to bother with the charade of a trial but he'll never be a free man again
Has none.
I told PP about mega a long time ago. At first someone listened, and mega was not able to take PP for a time, but not long after, not long at all, it was back. Anyone that can pay $13,000,000.00 a year to one hosting company can pay off some slimeball at PP to get his payment processing back.
...I thought he was Korean or Vietnamese. Y'know, something like Kim Dat-Kom or something.
I used to admire the New Zealand government of the 80s standing up to the US by not allowing nuclear powered vessels in their waters.
Looks like it's been replaced by a group of sycophantic ass lickers now apparently.
What a fucking shame.
Interestingly Kim Dotcom was creating his own much fairer music service/label before the seizure of the servers etc in January 2012.
Here is the best article I could find on google about it and the MegaUpload song takedown on YouTube.
There were questions about whether this was the real reason the takedown happened. For anyone who doesn't remember.
"Racketeering" simply means 'organized criminals', although the usual requirement is criminal abuse of customers and 'potential' ("shame if your shop burned down") customers. So I'm curious, which criminals was he in a not-so-secret business deal with? And don't say all those un-convicted copyright pirates. Even better, how were his customers abused?
So what brings you here, and don't say 'clown car'?, Krusty the clown's therapist, 'The Simpsons'.
Lets start taking bets
1:100 whole thing will not be a media circus.
1:1,000 the numbers will not be the hysterical trumped up amounts from 10 years ago ("trillions in industry losses").
1:10,000 he will not be held in a jail the entire time because he is a flight risk DESPITE the fact he was legally extradited.
1:100,000 he gets a "fair" trial.
1:1,000,000 he is found not guilty.
PLACE YOUR BETS NOW!
This is what the state of militarization of our police departments has caused. https://youtu.be/pMas0tWc0sg
This alone is sufficient cause for any sane court of law to deny extradition. Additionally, it provides more than sufficient justification for US citizens to assert their second amendment rights. We are in international embarrassment.
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I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just love to make his acquaintance. Especially that big, white, mushy butt of his.
the greedy fascists will make him suffer for not respecting their imagination. disguisting humans.
He should just admit that he is a Muslim, then rather than being forced to come to this country he will not be able to come to this country.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
And it smells like a week-old dead fish. Living in NZ we have heard a lot, even more as an IT professional.
The seizing of servers from Carpathia Hosting was illegal, plain and simple, so the Feds could sift through it and find evidence without probable cause. As stated by other comments above, Megaupload did remove infringing copyright when notified, the DMCA works well then when used properly.
So really, the "criminal copyright" is complete a BS made up thing where they need something to take him down. We have people blowing themselves and other people up, and *this* is a concern. Fuck that.
Google does the same with Youtube (though they do act on DCMA requests as well), and "linking to sites that enable copyright infringement to occur". So what is different to KDC vs Google? easy, money and lawyers - and Google also has the keys to the kingdom and will royally screw anyone if the fuck with them. I know that KDC is no choir-boy, he was a busy lad in in his younger days growing up in Germany, but Megaupload was legit.
Another thing I heard, and others may be able to verify, is KDC was going to start a thing called MegaMusic (os something like that) and he was actively approaching music artists to basically have free-to-play of their music, and the artisits would get revenue generated through imprint advertising through the service. I am quite sure the shutdown was masterminded by the RIAA and their ilk as KDC service would have cut them out completely.
KDC is a guy who was using tech smart to disrupt a tired monopolistic industry, trying to drag it kicking and screaming into the 2st centurey, and is being punished for it, same way Uber is disrupting taxi services, and so on.
Just because he likes to use a catchy assumed name doesn't mean the rest of us have to observe it.