It All Started With Invalid Raid
Tech Enterprise loses extradition bid from New Zealand to the US. Kim Dotcom is facing major copyright infringement charges and money laundering. Kim Dotcom’s mansion was famously raided four years ago under illegal warrants. After the raid, the famous file sharing site Megaupload was shutdown. Soon Mega was created, not only for file backups but for encrypted video service as well.
Nobody is ruining our Christmas, Kim Dotcom Twittered. US authorities say Kim Dotcom and three other executives cost film studios more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million in profits.
“We plan to appeal. We think the judge was wrong on the law,” Dotcom’s lawyer Ira Rothken told Reuters by telephone from California. “Justice wasn’t done today.”
Me after court today 😉 pic.twitter.com/PI8ZcygnUv
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 23, 2015
Don't you worry. Nobody is ruining our Christmas! All good! pic.twitter.com/0QrV6guJBk
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 23, 2015
This does not mean it is over for Kim Dotcom. New Zealand justice minister has the final say and will have to make the decision to extradite him to US or not.
Whitepaper Conclusion
The U.S. government’s take-down of Megaupload and Kim Dotcom has ramifications far beyond
a single company and its executives. It sets an alarming precedent for regulation of the Internet,
freedom of expression, privacy rights, and the very Rule of Law. The U.S. government should not be
able to act outside the bounds of due process, at the behest of special interest lobbies, to destroy
foreign-owned business enterprises and expropriate the private property of millions of individuals.
In response to the unlawful conduct of the U.S. government, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform and the Office of Professional Responsibility of the U.S. Department
of Justice should conduct an investigation and hearings into the conduct of the Megaupload
prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice. In particular, the issue of special-interest influence
over the executive branch and the failure of the Department of Justice to protect Megaupload
consumer data access should be scrutinized.
