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Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Appeal Concludes

posted by martyb on Thursday September 29 2016, @10:37PM   
from the how-long-are-long-appeals-appealing? dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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• Re:There's obviously more (Score: 4, Interesting) by deimtee on Friday September 30 2016, @05:53PM

  by deimtee (3272) on Friday September 30 2016, @05:53PM (#408468) Journal

  It's not just the music industry. From the (five year old!) Torrentfreak article above :

  When Megakey is installed the software asks permission to modify where 10 to 15% of the user’s online advertising experience is sourced from.
  “It works like an ad blocker but instead of blocking ads we show ads coming from Megaclick, our ad network,” says Kim. “This way we will generate enough ad revenue to provide free premium services and licensed content so that our users can have it for free.”

  - Pissing off Google and Facebook and anyone else who serves ads

  In future, free musical premium content will be provided through Megabox, described by Kim as the company’s iTunes competitor, while free premium movies will be supplied via Megamovie.com, a service we can reveal will be launched next year.

  - pissing off Apple.

  During the course of our discussion with Kim we also discovered an interesting feature that has been built into Megakey. Once installed the whole range of Mega sites can be accessed without the need to use the Internet’s DNS system, meaning that should SOPA kick in and the US government seizes Mega’s domains, users can still access the site.

  - 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.

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