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Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27004668

Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, is to be extradited to the US, the New Zealand justice minister has said.

German-born Dotcom has New Zealand residency and has been fighting extradition to the US since 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion.

The justice minister, Paul Goldsmith, had signed an extradition order for Dotcom, a spokesperson said on Thursday.

“I considered all of the information carefully, and have decided that Mr Dotcom should be surrendered to the US to face trial,” Goldsmith said in a statement.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Dotcom said: “The obedient US colony in the South Pacific just decided to extradite me for what users uploaded to Megaupload,” in what appears to be a reference to the extradition order.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I remember following this story for like a few years before I trailed off. This is absolutely fucking ridiculous. This was all orchestrated by the MAFIAA in an attempt to again make an example out of someone, because it wasn't too long after or so, that they managed to penalize and jail some of the original Pirate Bay founders. All of which were long not involved with the Pirate Bay but just because they've been associated with such a symbol that has continually and still continues to trounce the efforts of the copyright regime, had to go and make examples of them.

So here we are now with Dotcom and it feels exactly the same here. Gotta make an example of them because of the years long process of the butt-hurt executives in the copyright regime, crying crocodile tears about superfluous lost "millions" that they still to this day continue to keep vague, just to gain some clout.

Fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You have to differentiate between the pirate bay and Kim dotcom. The pirate bay has not sold the access to the media like he has.

The huge difference is that he profited off of pirated media and pirate bay not. Kims incentive was always profit for himself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'm kinda with you. If you're becoming filthy rich off selling access to content others made then you're fair game. If you're just doing it for yourself / not profiting it's a very different ball game though

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