[citation][nom]azxcvbnm321[/nom]What do you mean there's no proof? Hundreds of thousands of users can attest to the illegal fire sharing Megaupload was famous for. Now I'll have to ask you if any jury will find it reasonable that the execs at Megaupload didn't know about this illegal file sharing?Furthermore, the entire business structure of Megaupload was based upon illegal sharing. Users only needed to pay if they wanted to download a lot. Now what type of legal files uploaded from random unknown users, would get that much attention and attract people to pay for bandwidth? Files found only on Megaupload, not on the free photograph sites or Facebook? Any intelligent unbiased person would have to conclude that the business structure was based upon illegal file sharing, the business model would not work otherwise. As for corporations using megaupload, give me a break, why would you want confidential files or private information to be "shared" and available to anyone who gets their hands on the link? No way, that's a lawsuit and liability waiting to be filed. If you have unimportant documents, then there's Google Docs. Speaking of Google Docs, there's a legitimate site that doesn't depend upon illegal file sharing. Notice how it's free, why would anyone bother with Megaupload unless it offered illegal files? Again, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out and a jury will convict.[/citation]
Here's the problem, you don't understand how a criminal case works. There is zero assumption whatsoever, the proof has to solidly show that without a doubt they knowingly did not delete files that were reported and that doing so was a criminal offense. Your little story has a lot of assumptions without solid evidence. It wouldn't hold up in court, which is why the US case has already failed and he's still in NZ. Anyone who uses MU also knows that files get deleted when reported all the time. They just did not delete them often enough or fast enough to satisfy the industry. Unfortunately, the media industry does not make the laws like they seem to think. He probably is guilty, that is not how the justice system works. How would you like the police to pull you over and immediately arrest you because you're "probably" guilty of something, then search for probable cause later? He doesn't need to show up for court.
There also needs to be serious substantial cause to extradite him based on RICO. Comparing him to the likes of the Gambinos or Pablo Escobar is absurd. Those crime syndicates caused murders among dozens of other major felonies. People do not die from copyright infringement. RICO was not created so the feds could just have an excuse to invade foreign countries and arrest whoever they wanted.
[citation][nom]kinggremlin[/nom]Google isn't in trouble because whenever the rightful owner asks them to take the video down, they do. There were no such policies or procedures in place at Megaupload and as if Dotcom thought everyone else was total retard basically acted like MegaUpload wasn't used to illegally transfer copyrighted material on a massive scale.[/citation]
Again, files on MU were deleted regularly, just not "often enough". There's no law against not deleting copyrighted material "soon enough", it's a civil matter between two parties and would not be grounds for extradition.
tl;dr It doesn't matter if he's actually guilty of the crimes at this point, what matters is whether or not they had substantial proof for an arrest and extradition. Kim Dotcom is a criminal, a lot of free men are. This isn't Minority Report.
[citation][nom]Kami3k[/nom]Newsflash Sarah Palin, Africa isn't a country.[/citation]
Newsflash, Maverick. I never claimed it was a country. However the entire continent pretty much functions about the same with a few exceptions here and there, so I'm treating it as a common ground. I'm not even sure if they know which country they're in half the time considering how frequently government changes take place. It isn't like he isn't going to hop through all of them in the end.
I will admit though that Gabon is one of the "nicer" countries in Africa.
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