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Kim Dotcom alone remains liable for extradition.

Kim Dotcom is still fighting extradition in the courts.

Ah, Megaupload, the long-defunct file-sharing site that definitely wasn’t a haven for piracy during the mid-2000s. If you were hoping to catch up with what some of its leaders were doing after feds seized the domain in 2012, then you’ll have to do it during prison visitation. On Thursday, a New Zealand court sentenced two of the original operators of Megaupload to more than two years in prison over allegations they facilitated piracy and theft of intellectual property.

After 11 years of legal litigation and court battles, a duo of admins from Megaupload have been sentenced to prison in New Zealand.

The sentencing of Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk ended an 11-year legal battle by the men to avoid extradition to the US.

New Zealand's High Court has sentenced Megaupload operators Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk to 31 and 30 months in prison, respectively.

Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison.

Megaupload coders who pleaded guilty in a deal in which they promised to testify against Kim Dotcom have been sentenced to jail terms.  At the High...

The men last year struck a deal with prosecutors from New Zealand and the United States. 

Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison.