Fireship said this guy only costed Hollywood like 500m in “potential revenue” over the course of Megaupload’s existence which is pretty low compared to the accusations hurled at piratebay which is still active to this day.
The rumor is the FBI only went after him when he tried to setup Mega for music (essentially what Spotify does right now) with a guaranteed 90% profit split for artists. So not even because Mega was popular for pirated content, but because he was super close to imploding the poor (and I think only 3) multibillion dollar record labels.
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?
He made US companies lose money, while making money himself. Thats all they need.
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.
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
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.
Say what you will about ole Kim, but I spent a good chunk of time sailing the seven seas with his assistance.
But why is his name Dotcom.
If you speak Spanish, check this video: https://youtu.be/oUQ7_PK_pPw
Techbros will deadname you but will change their name to Kim Dotcom
Has Kim been transphobic? Or is this just you generally hating techbros (not that I’d really consider him a techbro tbh)