{"id":253637,"date":"2018-03-26T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T08:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=253637"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T08:56:29","slug":"kim-dotcom-wins-battle-to-avoid-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/253637-kim-dotcom-wins-battle-to-avoid-extradition.html","title":{"rendered":"Kim Dotcom wins battle to avoid extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won a battle in his fight against being extradited from New Zealand to the US, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-newzealand-internet-dotcom\/megaupload-founder-wins-battle-in-ongoing-fight-against-u-s-extradition-idUSKBN1H20D0\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A Wellington court ruled that the attorney general broke the law by refusing Dotcom&#8217;s request to be given all the information about him held by public agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Dotcom argued that the outcome of a case before the Human Rights Review Tribunal may be relevant to his extradition case, and the details he requested could be presented as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The US has requested extradition of Dotcom after the FBI raided his mansion and shut down Megaupload in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the US allege that Dotcom cost copyright holders over $175 million by enabling illegal downloads of copyrighted content.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that\u00a0the Human Rights Review Tribunal has already awarded Dotcom damages of R254,000 for &#8220;loss of a benefit&#8221; and R508,000 for &#8220;loss of dignity and injury to feelings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/231457-us-denies-kim-dotcoms-appeal-for-seized-millions.html\">US denies Kim Dotcom&#8217;s appeal for seized millions<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won his court battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8291,16296,8293,20671],"class_list":["post-253637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-kim-dotcom","tag-mega","tag-megaupload","tag-online-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253651,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253637\/revisions\/253651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}