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

submitted 3 months ago by Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm absolutely with you for the copyright part. I didn't follow the story but isn't part of it also because of money laundering? I'm not sure if I'm confusing different cases here, just asking because you may remember more.

[–] Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh right, that. The money laundering.

Here's an example of how scummy the department of justice in the united states was when it comes to handling copyright cases and bowing to the luxurious cocks of the media industry. They brandished the money laundering and racketeering excuse to cover up the fact that it was all about the claims of copyright infringement that got them to sick the SWAT teams on Dotcom.

People on the outside of this story, had no clue what was going on. But every pirate knew exactly what this was all about.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Oh man I'm stupid, it's in the article. I've read OPs summary and somehow checked it off as "read the article" and I was wondering why that wasn't mentioned.

Of course the money laundering accusations are a farce, I just thought they'd keep on that for the extradition.