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There's been little to no coverage, but Kim Dotcom’s extradition appeal is concluding. Yet, although the case has been going since January 2012, it is still far from over. At the same time he is also petitioning the Appeals Court for a rehearing over the millions in assets seized from him in New Zealand by the U.S. government. Although the U.S. government is spending a lot of money to try to extradite him, it is essential to note that he never lived there, he never traveled there, and he had no company there. Additionally, competing companies providing the same services have been allowed to thrive and even essentially received endorsements, such as the one which gained a former high level member of the Bush administration as a director. So, like with the DeCSS case, it looks like there is something unmentioned which is at the heart of the drive for vigorous prosecution.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheReaperD on Friday September 30 2016, @02:11PM
There's obviously more here that's not being said and there's a real reason why they want him so badly but, unlike Julian Assange, we have no idea what it is. Makes me wonder if there's classified material, either the belonging to the US or one of its adversaries that they really don't want getting out on his servers. I say this as they really don't want him to have the data back according to court records. It could be that as simple as he was going to damage someone's business model that was politically connected with the US government. But, they've already delayed him several years. If they wanted to damage him in the marketplace, the damage has been done and this is just beating a dead horse.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @04:45PM
He's convenient for their purposes.
1) He's not a US citizen and like he says, he was never in the US etc. He's someone else.
2) He's not exactly squeakly clean and many people don't like him.
Or maybe he scared the music industry a bit too much and so they asked their pals to go heavy on him? After all there was this: https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-label-artists-a-list-stars-endorse-megaupload-in-new-song-111209/ [torrentfreak.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkI5I8vsBg [youtube.com]
There were legit uses for his service, and I suspect many of his _paying_ customers were the legit ones. Think about it, what are the odds the people who want movies etc free would actually pay him? Heck they might even have blocked/hidden most of his ads. In contrast those who needed to regularly transfer large files to customers/business partners etc might sign up for premium accounts (expense it or something).
(Score: 4, Interesting) by deimtee on Friday September 30 2016, @05:53PM
It's not just the music industry. From the (five year old!) Torrentfreak article above :
- Pissing off Google and Facebook and anyone else who serves ads
- pissing off Apple.
- pissing off all the TLA's who would like to monitor/control your internet access.
It is obvious that he must be squashed like a bug.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.