Jeremy Proome
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When crimes occur through the mail, you don't shut the post office down. When governments dream up charges of 'racketeering' for a typical IT guy who is just operating a file-sharing service, or accuse him of mail fraud because he said he had removed files [to alleged infringing content] when he'd just removed the links to them, this is evidence of how poorly thought out the attempt to extradite him is. Prosecutors are attempting to take advantage of loopholes.
How unfair that the United States will allow him living expenses out of his frozen assets but not give him any legal fees. The side with access to the funds spends millions on lawyers hoping the other side goes bankrupt and gives in. Shame on the system that permits this one-sided advantage. Kim is well enough liked and respected that his legal team is working without up-front payment.
This is a show of power. Not of justice.
Regarding the article: Not even one sample of a taunt?
The High Court has ruled the police raid on internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's Auckland mansion was illegal and the removal from New Zealand of cloned copies of hard drives seized was unlawful.
The cloning of Dotcom's hard drives by the FBI, who took the copied disks back to the US was also ruled as invalid because Dotcom had never given consent.
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He said he was told the FBI had been in New Zealand and made clones of the data on the computers and one copy would be made available to him.
Mr Davison said he had yet to receive that copy and was only told today that copies had been sent to the US.
"There has been no approval for removal.''
Mr Davison also said there had been an "excess of authority''.
"Here is an example of what I would submit at the most moderate was high-handed and at the worst misleading.''
He said the process was "off the rails'' and his client's rights had been "subverted''.
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Dotcom faces an extradition hearing in August which will determine whether or not he is to fly to the US to face charges including copyright infringement and wire fraud relating to the file-sharing website Megaupload.