139

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

submitted 2 months ago by Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. I have hated this fucking guy when he was still in Germany. He has been a criminal for all of his adult life. Fuck him.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

Didn't he start his "career" with showing a hack on how to get free dial-up internet on German TV for fame and thereby ruining it for everyone because obviously the telco "fixed" the hack after that?