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Maybe I’m just completely ignorant of law, but how/why can he be extradited to a foreign country in this manner? Did he previously reside in and operate out of the US?

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He made US companies lose money, while making money himself. Thats all they need.

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Not even that, the service he operated might have been used such that US companies might have missed out on potential revenue.

That’s it.

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Ironically, companies made revenue using megaupload in the past.

I recall getting first party .exes from megaupload prior to the huge Google Cloud push.

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NZ has an extradition treaty with the the US.

Apparently potential copyright infringement is extradition worthy

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Many countries have extradition agreements.

Y’know those spam calls you get? Where they try to say they are the government? The reason they get away with that is that your country doesn’t have an extradition agreement with their country.

That’s a drastic oversimplification but it’s still true

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Nope. The US just has that much influence.

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We essentially control Australia, it’s fucking weird.

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You know countries with extradition agreements can request extraditions in the other direction, as well?

If an american does a crime in Australia, but makes it back to the states, Australias government can also go “yeah so uuuh that guy killed a dude over here, gonna need him back for trial”.

It’s what makes it less likely people will just do crime all over other countries and then return home to escape punishment.

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