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OPINION: Is it our position that if, as a resident of these shores, you do something here that is illegal in a foreign country that nation can demand you be sent offshore to live out your days in a foreign prison?

RICKY WILSON Mega executives Bram van der Kolk and Mathias Ortmann’s passports are still being held at the High Court as part of the Kim Dotcom saga. ANALYSIS: New Zealand is too small and interconnected for people to speak too negatively about the country’s institutions, which is why it’s hard to get anybody to say anything bad about the NZX or Reserve Bank cyberattacks last year. At some point you’re probably going to have to deal with the person or institution you slag off in public...

Dotcom and co-accused in court split over extradition case delay 22 Feb, 2021 02:10 AM 4 minutes to read Bram Van der Kolk, Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann and Finn Batato presented a united front at the outset of the case. Photo / File Bram Van der Kolk, Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann and Finn Batato presented a united front at the outset of the case. Photo / File The Megaupload defence has split in different legal directions, with Kim Dotcoms co-accused asking the Supreme Court to resolve a legal ar...

> After more than nine years of legal battles, the staggering cost of the various copyright-related cases against Kim Dotcom and Megaupload have now been made public. Government lawyers in New Zealand have spent 40,500 hours working on cases related to Dotcom, in addition to burning through more than US$2.6 million in ancillary costs. On 19 January 2012, the United States Department of Justice seized and shutdown Megaupload, a massive cloud-storage site founded by Kim Dotcom. On the same day,...

The Dotcom decade - and what it has cost the taxpayer 8 minutes to read The Governments lawyers have spent 40,500 hours working on Megaupload- and Kim Dotcom-related cases over the past decade. If those lawyers were working 40-hour weeks, the effort exerted would be 19 years and six months of work - or two lawyers constantly working full time over the entire period the drama has unfolded. If lawyers were builders, the work invested could have seen 40 houses built. If the case ...