Megaupload founder gets uncuffed

Extradition may never happen

Given that the US judge handling the case involving MegaUpload asserts that may never happen - because the US authorities never served papers, in turn because constitutionally they can't on a foreign company - it seems entirely possible he may never be extradited at all.

NZ law requires that the extraditable offence carry a minimum period (five years) custodial sentence. The remaining ones don't.

Perhaps the XZ Crown has been ...

reading the tea-leaves and realises the USA is pulling yet another fast one.

Lucky Dotcom wasn't fitted up with a terrorist conspiracy charge, currently the flavour of the month with the FBI.

At least the NZ authorities are more reasonable than the UK types, they swallow FBI lies hook, line and sinker.

Shonky John

FBI still took evidence from NZ illegally, NZ police still did a ganster type raid full of black opps and extra octane. If NZ politicians have their way, they will still be happily bending over for the US of A. Soon they'll sign the TPM free trade agreement and the US will be able to come over and do what ever they like.

I have no doubt the guy is morally bankrupt, that is the way to succeed in business and banking these days. It is just that some US companies that apparently own the US govt don't like the game when it is played against them.

So I hope he walks away with a huge cheque from the US for their trouble.

LOL

Hes making his own album???

Fat man gangsta hacker rapper with songs such as

"NZ Snitches"

"FBI (fat bald idiots)"

"Dotcom Douchbag-ery"

"Fuck your takedown request"

"MEGA McDonalds Tripping"

And the smash hit

"Warez the bitches at?"

Cyber crimes are starting to show a flaw in the concept of extradition.

Where did the crime actually take place - was it in the US or outside the US? And where was dotcom when the crime was committed - inside the US, or outside the US?

The logical conclusion is that any state in the world could request the extradition of anyone anywhere because they have breach a law in that state, even if they did not commit a crime in their own country. Example - Saudi Arabia requesting the extradition of homosexuals from the UK, even though they've never visited Saudi.

OK, so this may be an extreme conclusion, but until we as a planet agree the limits of jurisdiction, these examples remain plausible.

Serious backpeddling here. I can see a time in some months where the case will just quietly peter out. Bit by bit, different parts of the case will be dropped until eventually the case no longer exists, but there won't be any annoucement saying this.