{"id":44933,"date":"2012-03-05T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=44933"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T07:57:52","slug":"u-s-files-to-extradite-kim-dotcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/44933-u-s-files-to-extradite-kim-dotcom.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. files to extradite Kim Dotcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy accused <a title=\"Kim Dotcom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/397721-Kim-Dotcom\">Kim Dotcom<\/a> faces a United States request for extradition, which could see the <a title=\"Megaupload\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/398275-Megaupload\">Megaupload<\/a> founder face charges on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n<p>The extradition hearing will only be held in August later this year and once it gets underway, it could still be months before a conclusion is reached.<\/p>\n<p>In the indictment against Dotcom, U.S. officials allege that Dotcom and his associates made millions through Megaupload, an online hosting service that allowed global access to pirated movies, music and TV shows. The scheme has allegedly cost copyright owners over $500 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Dotcom meanwhile claims he is innocent, and is a victim of U.S. law enforcement officials who are trying to placate \u201cHollywood\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-57390328-261\/u.s-files-to-extradite-megauploads-kim-dotcom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government has filed a request to have Kim Dotcom extradited from New Zealand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":41789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8291,8293],"class_list":["post-44933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-kim-dotcom","tag-megaupload"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}