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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:52 pm 
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Not sure if you get much of the news regarding Megaupload, but it's pretty big here in Aussie land. Kim Dotcom has now created a website to hit back at the US government for their initial authorisation of the raid of his place and the 'lemming' actions by the NZ police.

Here's the news report.

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PIRACY-ACCUSED multi-millionaire Kim Dotcom has gone on the offensive against the United States, launching a new webpage to share information about his case.
Dotcom and three other men who worked for his Megaupload file-sharing website, Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato and Bram Van der Kolk, face copyright, racketeering and money laundering charges in the United States.

The four are on bail in New Zealand awaiting an extradition hearing set down for March next year.

Dotcom has laid out his side of the court case on his website, http://www.kim.com, on a page titled "10 Facts About the Megaupload Scandal".

He says the only party found to have broken the law so far is the New Zealand police, after a High Court judge ruled the search warrant used to confiscate hard drives and other material from Dotcom was illegal.

His website, similar in appearance to one that might be created to support the release of a new Hollywood movie, features the taglines: "The war for the Internet has begun", "Hollywood is in control of politics" and "The government is killing innovation".

...Dotcom has taken the witness stand in the High Court at Auckland this week at a hearing into the January police raid on his Coatesville mansion which resulted in his arrest.

The hearing follows on from a ruling in late June that the search warrants used to carry out the raid were invalid.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/br ... 6446459948


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I don't know that I've seen much of anything in primary mainstream news sources here, but Ars Technica runs stories fairly religiously - the guy is a big glorious train wreck. I thought this piece did a good job of introducing Dotcom to the uninitiated.


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Oh, Kim Dotcom.

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Kim Dotcom is an idiot, and a money-laundering criminal, over and above the legality of megaupload.

However, the US and NZ government's means of taking him down appear to be equally criminal.

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Talya wrote:
Kim Dotcom is an idiot, and a money-laundering criminal, over and above the legality of megaupload.

However, the US and NZ government's means of taking him down appear to be equally criminal.


That being said, will it end up being "the ends justify the means" version of justice? If it can be called justice at all?

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