Kim DotCom Faces U.S. Extradition, Hearing Will Be Live On YouTube
Kim Dotcom’s life is never boring. When he’s not fighting off lawsuits, he is building mega-businesses like Megaupload. When he is not openly mocking the U.S. Government, he is building a Megaupload remix that will be built around Bitcoin’s digital currency. Taking on the world’s greatest empire in court is just another day in paradise for Kim, and so he will do it in style. Kim Dotcom is facing an American extradition legal hearing, starting today, and it will be streamed live on YouTube. First time in history a legal hearing is streamed live on YouTube. The U.S. is looking to make an....
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An extradition trial over Kim Dotcom and three colleagues in Auckland, New Zealand began on Monday amid controversy. He even brought his own chair. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom appears in court to fight U. S. extradition: http://t.co/eERBd8Wct8 pic.twitter.com/INmk6e4QCb. - Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) September 21, 2015. Dotcom, along with two executives for file-sharing site Megaupload, were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment, dating back to January 2012, led to a FBI shutdown of Megaupload and then a dramatic raid at the Internet....
New Zealand — August 29, Kim Dotcom, the creator of Megaupload, has recently requested for a livestreaming of his extradition appeal. The native German currently faces 20 years in prison for copyright infringement, money laundering, and other charges. Lawyer Argues Trial is of “Public Interest”. The founder of the Mega Upload file hosting services requested it to be broadcast live on Youtube. The US — the country attempting to extradite him — has opposed the proposal. Dotcom’s lawyer, Ron Mansfield, was the first to make the request, asking on the first day of the appeal hearing, which is....
The National Court in Spain has suspended the hearing destined to deal with the extradition request that John McAfee, the well known cryptocurrency influencer, has pending for its tax-related crimes in the U.S. The entrepreneur was apprehended in October last year in the El Prat Airport where he was going to take a flight. No new dates have been announced for the new hearing. National Court Suspends John McAfee Extradition Hearing The National Court of Spain suspended the extradition hearing of John McAfee this week for tax evasion charges, as was reported by local media. The Court alleged....
New Zealand — December 23, Bitcoin enthusiast and Mega Upload creator Kim Dotcom can now be extradited to the United States. Dotcom with three others face U.S. authorities for transgressions of money laundering, copyright infringement and other charges. The current resident of New Zealand has been battling the courts now for quite some time and won’t be creating new projects anytime soon. Kim Dotcom had plans on creating a new Mega enterprise called — Meganet — telling press via Skype from his home a few months ago. According to what he told Business Insider the service would be quite....
Tech entrepreneur and web bad boy Kim Dotcom is back in the news, having announced the launch of the Internet Party. This is not a joke: Dotcom wants to launch a legitimate political party in New Zealand and one of his stated goals involves the creation of a new cryptocurrency in the island nation. Kim Dotcom does have rather a chequered past that could get in the way of his political leanings, however. His rise to fame started in the '90s, when he was convicted for computer fraud and espionage in his native Germany. His hacking days are now long over, however, and he is best known for....