Megaupload coders sentenced to prison after home detention bid denied
Kim Dotcom alone remains liable for extradition.
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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.