{"id":46902,"date":"2012-04-02T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46902"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:07:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T06:07:05","slug":"megaupload-founder-allowed-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/46902-megaupload-founder-allowed-internet-access.html","title":{"rendered":"Megaupload founder allowed internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of file-sharing website <a title=\"Megaupload\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/398275-Megaupload\">Megaupload<\/a>, <a title=\"Kim Dotcom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/397721-Kim-Dotcom\">Kim Dotcom<\/a>, is being allowed back online.<\/p>\n<p>Dotcom was previously denied Internet access under bail conditions imposed by New Zealand authorities after his January arrest. He remains under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. prosecutors seeking to extradite Dotcom accuse him of racketeering by facilitating millions of illegal downloads of copyrighted material on his website.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Judge David Harvey on Monday said Dotcom&#8217;s behavior since his arrest appears to have been &#8220;exemplary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge ruled Dotcom could access the Internet, go swimming once a day, travel twice a week to an Auckland studio to record music, and meet once a week with his co-accused Megaupload colleagues ahead of an August extradition hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, is being allowed back online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":41789,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,8291,8293],"class_list":["post-46902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-kim-dotcom","tag-megaupload"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46902\/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=46902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}