Megaupload website founder Kim Dotcom and three associates have been cleared by a New Zealand court to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges of copyright infringement and racketeering.

Dotcom was indicted by a Virginia court back in 2012. He and his colleagues were charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement and money laundering, and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement.

Describing the order as a political judgment, Dotcom wrote in a Twitter message that “New Zealand Copyright Law (92b) makes it clear that an ISP can't be criminally liable for actions of their users. Unless you're Kim Dotcom?”

"I'm no longer getting extradited for copyright. We won on that. I'm now getting extradited for a law that doesn't even apply," he wrote in another tweet.

Dotcom's legal team has decided to appeal to the Court of Appeals. “The High Court has accepted that Parliament made a clear and deliberate decision not to criminalise(sic) this type of alleged conduct by internet service providers, making them not responsible for the acts of their users,” the statement added.


Source: Network World