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Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse The decade-long legal brawl over cloud storage locker Megaupload has moved a little closer to resolution after two of the outfit's execs pled guilty to a variety of charges.… Megaupload, fronted by colorful entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, offered users the chance to upload files and store them in a cloud. Files could then be made available to other members....

SYDNEY - Two coders at the file-sharing website Megaupload were sentenced to prison by a New Zealand court on Thursday (June 15) after pleading guilty in a deal in which they promised to testify against the site's founder Kim Dotcom, according to the New Zealand Herald. Mathias Ortmann was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison and Bram...

But at least they avoided extradition to the US  Two men who helped run the website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court  t...

Dutch IT specialist Bram van der Kolk sentenced to prison for facilitating illegal downloads at Megaupload. Court ruling in New Zealand.

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The police say today's sentencing of two key figures in the Megaupload case reflects years of work by investigators in New Zealand and the United States.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two coders at the file-sharing website Megaupload were sentenced to prison by a New Zealand court on Thursday after pleading guilty in a deal in which they promised to testify against the site's founder Kim Dotcom, according to the New Zealand Herald. Mathias Ortmann was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison and Bram van der Kolk to two years and six months by the

Kim Dotcom is still fighting extradition in the courts.

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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.