Megaupload extradition bid - Feds WON'T have to hand in their evidence
Summary of the data enough for Dotcom decision, says court
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A New Zealand court has ruled that the Feds don’t have to turn over all their evidence against Megaupload kingpin Kim Dotcom to get him extradited.
The Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that the FBI had to tip its hand to Dotcom so that he could fairly contest the case against him, Reuters and others reported.
Dotcom faces allegations of online piracy, fraud and money-laundering in connection with the file-sharing site Megaupload, which the Feds allege made $175m since 2005 by copying and distributing copyrighted content including movies and music without authorisation.
The file-sharing tycoon's defence is that the site was just a storage facility and it shouldn’t be held responsible for what content people chose to keep there. Undeterred by the accusations against him, he launched a new file-sharing site called Mega in January this year.
The Court of Appeal said that a summary of the evidence would be enough to back up the plea for extradition. William Akel, one of Dotcom’s lawyers, told Radio New Zealand that Dotcom may try to appeal the decision in New Zealand’s Supreme Court.
"How can you determine whether or not there has been compliance with candor and good faith if you don't know what documents are being relied on to support the case?" he said.
The extradition hearing for Dotcom and three other defendants is scheduled to be held in August. ®
COMMENTS
The whole case just seems to be BS.
I had files stored on MU, PP of course. Kinda like "Cloud" before "Cloud" was all the rage. Gone, all gone...no sharing copyright material, just....gone. I had backups of course, but..... I wasn't infringing on copyrighted material.
And now, everyone is persuading me to move my content to "The Cloud" so I can "access it anywhere"?
I had that, it's gone now, so what happens when the same thing happens to someones "Cloud"? I seriously doubt Balmer will be hauled into court if everyone decides to share their latest music or movie "In the Cloud".
Or, as Google sees it, if you put it on our "Cloud" WE have access to it (As does everyone else) and WE can use it to serve OUR own purpose.
but let me share with others.....Hell no! That infringement! Gotta shut the whole damn thing down and let everyone loose all their stuff! Can they do that with Google? Amazon? MicroSoft?
Who's watching the watchers?
Regardless of the ethics of Dotcom himself, the whole thing is starting to look like a case of US imperialism. If you aren't a US entity, you aren't allowed to setup a service which remotely resembles cloud.
Re: Why wouldn't they want to hand over the evidence?
ah, yes, but then he will have been where they want him to be, at all cost, i.e in the US of A.
And "in the US no-one can hear you scream".
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