Megaupload founder still faces NZ extradition battle

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said that "interesting facts" will emerge in his ongoing pitched battle against extradition to the United States over copyright infringement.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won the right to demand the United States hand over all the evidence in its online piracy case against the internet entrepreneur, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won the right to demand the United States hand over all the evidence in its online piracy case against the internet entrepreneur, New Zealand's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world's biggest file-sharing sites. Big enough, according to a U.S. indictment, that it earned founder Kim Dotcom $42 million last year alone....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand judge denied bail Wednesday to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, while a U.S. official confirmed the arrest of a fifth suspect, in the Netherlands, in the copyright infringement case against the website....

Federal prosecutors say they have shut down one of the world’s largest Internet file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.

Just over a month after police broke up an alleged online gambling ring at a Markham Super Bowl party, a slew of raids in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario Tuesday morning added 18 more arrests to the tally. “Today, I can say that we have dismantled one of the largest illegal gaming groups in Canada and the previous arrests were one phase of a larger project,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner, Steve Graham. “Organized crime groups are entirely profit-motivated and this illegal gaming activity generated significant profits.”