Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Gets $750,000 Back

Ernesto
April 28, 2012
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Kim Dotcom booked a valuable victory this week when a court ruled that $750,000 in funds and cars should be returned to the Megaupload founder. Among other things, Dotcom regained possession of a $301,000 bank account and his Mercedes-Benz G55AMG. Other property that was seized based on an order from the US District Court remains in the hands of the New Zealand authorities for the time being.

mega kim The New Zealand High Court has decided to return several items of property belonging to Kim Dotcom.

The Megaupload founder is allowed to keep his $20,000 a month spending budget and regains use of his Mercedes-Benz G55AMG, a luxury car worth $250,000 that sports “Police” on its license plate. A bank account containing $301,000 was also returned.

Dotcom’s wife Mona will have her expenses covered and can have use of a Toyota Vellfire.

Despite the partial success, Stuff reports that the High Court chose to uphold the majority of the US District Court seizure order. This means that most of Dotcom’s cars and other goods will remain with the authorities until further notice.

Dotcom’s attorney Willie Akel had asked the court to return all properties because the New Zealand authorities didn’t investigate the US request, but Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order.

A significant portion of the new funds will be used to pay for legal expenses, both in New Zealand and the United States.

Among other things, the legal team will try to prevent Dotcom’s extradition. A court will review whether the Megaupload founder has committed an extraditable offense that violates New Zealand law. Earlier this week Dotcom’s US lawyer Ira Rothken said they are confident that this is not the case.

“According to our New Zealand counsel we don’t think that would be the case so we’re optimistic that Kim Dotcom will have a good result in New Zealand,” Rothken said.

The extradition hearing is scheduled for September. In the meantime Megaupload’s defense team is preparing a response to the US indictment, which is expected to be filed in the coming weeks.

Dotcom believes that they have a strong case against an indictment he describes as “nonsense.” The Megaupload founder previously shared several issues that the defense team will bring up in their reply, and he characterized the whole case as a political move.

“This Mega takedown was possible because of corruption on the highest political level, serving the interests of the copyright extremists in Hollywood,” he said.

Whether Megaupload will have to defend itself is still uncertain though. Last week Judge O’Grady informed the FBI that a trial in the United States may never happen because it is impossible to serve a foreign company with criminal charges.

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Guest

go dotcom!
- go but…not there
  
  *not to U.S. tho… that government is corrupt as fuck !
  - Guest
    
    How is this article more important CISPA one?!
    - Temoi
      
      Yes, why is this bs about some corrupt a-hole more important than CISPA?
  - Anonymous
    
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  - Anonymous
    
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- Anonymous
  
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- Jenifer
  
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- http://profile.yahoo.com/ZH3IFCBTGRQYNVBM62NIW3PWAM Kristin
  
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Like a boss.
- http://kinophilia.blogspot.in/ Matías Guzmán
  
  do you mean “like a bawss”?
  - The Prophet
    
    you mean “like a pussy”?
Anon

Fuck the US and CISPA. +1 for Kim Dotcom. :-)
- Lord of the Files
  
  “Fuck the US and CISPA.”
  
  I hope this turns into a nightmare for the US government and their masters in the entertainment industry. I also hope with all sincereity that Megaupload can manage to come back online and get back to where they were sitting before this train wreck happened.
  
  “Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order.
  
  These things don’t just happen out of the blue for no reason. They’re not random acts of nature. Someone somewhere in the world is responsible and eventually a big fat finger is going to point them out. I look forward to that day with much anticipation.
  - Guest
    
    ”Someone somewhere in the world is responsible and eventually a big fat finger is going to point them out.”
    
    Heh… keep on dreaming. The worst/best that will happen is that they receive an equally fat paycheck to step down. What a punishment to receive several million to quit your job. Us normal folks call that “winning the lottery”.
    - Lord of the Files
      
      You’re probably right, Guest. It’s like that where my spouse works. Speaking from experience, she says the number one skill you can have is an ability to cover your own ass at a moments notice. Those that do rock the boat tend to not get fired. They just get transfered, usually upwards. Why else do you think the top positions are full of idiots? :)
  - Retaliator
    
    “I hope this turns into a nightmare for the US government and their masters in the entertainment industry.”
    
    The criminals who usurped the US gov do not care. They are wasting the tax payer money not their.
    
    Also the previous administration went away with war crime for now and many of these criminals are still in the gov still making trouble. There is no end to this until the US citizen hang them all democrats and republican combined.
  - Tgyvytfytf
    
    Serioously, your long post with a thought doesn not belong with Anon’s shitty thoughtless comments/asshole
    - Lord of the Files
      
      LOL! Comments like this make me feel so goooood inside! It’s the kind of reply that tells me I’m on the right track and gives me the motivation I need to stay strong and keep going. Thanks for taking the time to illuminate all of us with your witty and well thought out reply, Tgyvytfytf. ;-)
      
      PS: You have a bizarre definition of “long post” lol.
  - tonyj
    
    I would just love to see Chris Dodd in the poor house. I would like to see Dotcom sue for damages and make Mr. Dodd pay out of pocket expenses. This former American senator A-hole is just as sleazy and weaselly as they come. All the money he made while sitting on the senate subcommittee on securities, insurance, and investment before and during the bank collapse made he millions, probably close to 200 Million.
Anonymous

I think all of this is great but even if Mega Upload comes back the damage to the cyber locker industry will be forever.

The following removed Affiliate programs :
VideoBB
Putlocker
Videozer
NovaMov
Video Weed
4sharedFilesonicFileserveVideoBBVideoXerFileJungleUploadStationFilePost

Deleted File Sharing

FilesonicFileserveFilejungleUploadstation

This is a real shame but a few still have affiliate :

FileBox
DepositFiles
VidBux
- Anon
  
  You forgot wupload
  
  The few that are lasting are amateur services.
- Anonymous
  
  Yes but if Mega comes back full force it will send a message that’s much more powerful than the threat that was sent out with the takedown. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mega file racketeering charges against the MAFIAA.
  - ANONYMOUS
    
    How can they present racketeering charges against the MAFIAA? Even if half the board wanted this, it just cannot happen.
http://profiles.google.com/orfetheo Orfeas Theofanis

WIN!
- Tgyvytfytf
  
  GTFO YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO SAY, EVERYONE FLAG HIM.
  - Guest
    
    Awwwwww, someone widdle butthurt because big nasty Dotcom got some money back?
    
    Yeah, you totally have something better to say. I think PelouzeTF needs someone new under his desk.
  - personal army request denied
    
    nypa bitch
Lulz

Yep… U.S. government corrupt as Satan’s underwear… too bad they’ve got it so fixed that there’s nothing short of a revolution that can change it.
- Tgyvytfytf
  
  Anyone that says “lulz” is a fucking faggot
Anyone

at least now he can pay his lawyers and mount a proper defence

but it still seems like it will be long off until he can relaunch MU
- Dan
  
  Isn’t it funny that the MPAA are always going on about lost sales and they don’t have a leg to stand on. But MegaUpload… Think of the lost sales and damage to his business (obvious i know) my point is know ones ever going to be responsible for those losses.
Gae

‘Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order.’

Does nobody else find that part disturbing? I know if I lived in NZ I would be pretty pissed at that.
- Anonymous
  
  so, is he saying that no US order has to be evaluated for legitimacy? does that mean then that the US can put out any order it wants, against anyone it wants, whenever it wants, for whatever reason it wants and NZ will just bend over straight away, take it up the rear and do what the US says without checking that it’s legitimate? is that the same for all countries that order arrests in NZ? what sort of justice system have they got there, for Christ’s sake? look at the complete balls up that’s been made over this case already because nothing was checked first! it’s not just the USA that are a laughing stock, NZ are right up there with them as well!
  - Guest
    
    No, it doesn’t mean that. He is not _required_ to evaluate the legitimacy, but obviously allowed if he’d want to. That’s still a little disturbing, though.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      He should be REQUIRED to evaluate the legitimacy of these things before he honors them.
- JusticeForAll
  
  I do. I wonder where is the justice in there.
- Dan
  
  Yeah i did, its always goes like this. They can see its corrupt but everyone still goes thought the motions and does their individual job to enforce the US order. When u see stuff like this you just no are cowardly race is doomed.
What I seen on TorrentFreak

What the ****
foff

The Us government is corrupt because unfortunately we put a retarded N in charge.
- ANONYMOUS
  
  That “N” supports the content industry more than Bush supported the gun/tank developers. I know who was the better president. Certainly not the “N” who hired the RIAA top bosses as “legal advisors”. Corruption down to the bone.
  
  The lobby industry during Bush regime paid more to get the wars going than the current regime who has MPAA and RIAA step up with the stacks of money they’re filling in the politicians’ pockets. Thank you, you retarded “N”.
- white trash
  
  as opposed to all the previous white retards
  - foff
    
    The term refers to more than just color it also implies someone who is a selfish glory seeker. It also refers to a stubborn unwillingness to properly embrace the culture they grow up in. Many of them in the US can’t even properly speak english. Just watch an interview from any athlete of their color and compare it to interviews of white athletes.
    - Anyone
      
      dook r durr
- FuzzyDuck
  
  At this time it’s safe to say that 9 out of 10 US politicians are corrupt arseholes that don’t serve the public interest. Certainly this president and the previous one are no exception. Party affiliation is not relevant, and neither is race.
  - Guest
    
    Nope. I would estimate that at 10 out of 10. In fact, I could count on the fingers of one foot, the number of politicians who aren’t paid off by some industry or other.
    - My Name
      
      I would go for at least 11 out of 10.
      
      See….. I also count ex-politicians
      who revolved through the door and now lobby.
      
      http://www.opensecrets.org/
    - FuzzyDuck
      
      I am such an optimist, LOL. I do think there are some exceptions amongst US politicians, but 10% may be a great overestimation. Maybe it’s more like 1%.
      
      For fun I tried to think of some, and came up with the names of only 3 elected politicians in Washington who I think are probably not corrupt, that’s like 0.5% of the total.
    - Tgyvytfytf
      
      LOOKS LIKE YOU THOUGHT WRONG, FURFAGGOT, BECAUSE IM GOING TO GROW AND TO BE A GOOD POLITICIAN, SO YOUR ESTIMATION FAILED
- Anonymous
  
  It was corrupt long before THE MAN got in……those of us who thought he was there to look out for the little guy…….Oh, well! What’s the matter? You can’t take a joke?…..
- YOU == useful idiot
  
  “The Us government is corrupt because unfortunately we put retarded N in charge”
  
  Don’t talk shit
  The whole system is corrupt.
  Obama has changed nothing.
  Your vote still means NOTHING.
  
  Your hatred is fed and controlled by people who lobby.
  ( they are just from a different sector than the Dem’s main bribers)
  
          You are being played   ( like a useful idiot )
  
         Ignore all the Bipartisan bills that are passed
  
  
                          Focus on hatred
  
                   While you get sneakily screwed
  
              _______________________________________
  
  
               CORRUPTION     DOESN’T     MATTER
  
                GETTING    OBAMA    OUT    DOES
  
               Both sides don’t agree 100% on any issue
                        Yes idiot believe it
  
  like a useful idiot , you believe the LIES and IGNORE THE FACT’S.
  
  LOOK for yourself at the bipartisan support and lobbying FACTS.
  Then you might ask the republicans…..
  to kiss you the next time…….before they fuck you up the ass
  
  http://www.opensecrets.org
Amused

Perhaps the USA knew all along that they could never prosecute Dotcom and the arrests were all an elabotate ploy to shut Mega down and scare the shit out of all other cyberlockers and filesharing sites in order that they shut down themselves. It certainly seems to have had that effect to a surprising degree. If so I hope Dotcom sues the crap out of them for millions and teach them a bloody good lesson.
- Vincent Giannell
  
  That will only make them angry and sue Kim back.
- FuzzyDuck
  
  The point was to destroy Megaupload and they succeeded to that without any trial.
  
  One really wonders about the justice system if it allows governments to do that…
  - Anonymous
    
    Unfortunately this is far too common in most law systems.
    
    The Police as part of their job do not come knocking on some company’s door saying “we have had a copyright fraud complaint. can I come in so we can discuss this? oh and copies of some of your documents would help”
    
    This chat would much help when Police Officers are trained to detect when you lie and can judge your level of cooperation.
    
    Nope they aim to catch you out with technology they do not understand, are “fooled” by the so called “experts” from the MAFIAA, then this glorious misunderstanding presented to a Judge who authorises a raid.
    
    Thus the business is largely destroyed and the business owner, who is the only real expert in all this, can only feebly laugh at how stupid they all are.
    
    I have been there and done that. :-/
    - Dan
      
      I said this last week it seems irrelevant but maybe not. The Police in the UK raided my friends house the other day. This was on suspicion of dealing weed which he wasn’t. Anyway all they needed to get a court order was info that he stood outside his home talking to his friends. The police at some point had seen something passed from friend to friend. a phone, a cigaret, a spliff. But this was enough to get his door kicked down and house searched. I’m saying it looks like court orders are easy to get…
  - Guest
    
    If Megaupload came back online I think many would still use it to support what it stands for.
  - Anonymous
    
    Classic case of legal copyright trolling. Raise a case, trash the competition or offending business, then when the case holds no water the taxpayers have to pay the damages, not the MPAA/RIAA.
    
    One doesn’t have to “wonder” very much…
RIAAtarded

ok I have a problem with this statement and if it is legally true there are some serious issues with the current system….” Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order.”
Now why would the the New Zealand government accept this all carte blanche and run with it. If Dotcom successfully defends against this and it seems in certain areas he already has how does this not open them up to legal action themselves? It makes no sense to not do their own due diligence on the issue and see if it even qualifies under their legal system or not. This whole thing just lends to the theory that hollywood has bought and paid for the legal and political process and right and wrong have nothing to do with it.
- Anonymous
  
  It’s possible that the judge intended that result. Could be classic psyops: Do something to piss the population off, knowing that they’ll demand the result you want from the people you really are after.
Dkk

murder, robbery and abduction done by the us authority is considered legal
- Anonymous
  
  Naturally. There used to be an executive order in effect banning US the CIA from taking extralegal action against a foreign citizen. This has in effect been rescinded by simply making it a part of international treaties that a US “request” shall supercede both local national law and US law.
Anonymous

“but Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order”

Seriously? And people have faith in that system? Really? Hello abuse, goodbye liberties.
Anonymous

but Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order.

There is the main problem with the extradition system when it is like “we don’t care if the charges are true or not when this is a known offence and we will extradite you to face trial”. So that is a very hard system to defend yourself from when they largely ignore your defence in like “save that for the trial”

The major problem with the United States is that they do certainly listen to political objectives. You can certainly ask the question why they waited all these years until the Mega Song release and the announcement of MegaBox? Upset UMG and more and they use their political links to destroy their enemy.

Julian Assange of Wikileaks is the same being an enemy of the United States and they abuse the law system to bully the Hell out of him.

So the end result is anyone here can be extradited on a murder charge based only some made up evidence and very blurred CCTV footage they claim is you… even if people can testify you were elsewhere at the time. It is all save it for the trial, extradition granted.
- ANONYMOUS
  
  See if the rape charges will stick to Julian Assange. Another plot to get a foreigner extradited from a country to the US who is making it almost a business to import foreign “potential prisoners” to a system that is highly corrupted….Just because they can!
GG

Yeeeeeeah Kim Dotcom !
Have you got any news about the data stored on the server ? Negociations began two days ago ^^
Anonymous

Above all, what two mega weapons do Copyright holders need most desperately in their Arsenal?

A new revolutionary breakthrough in Identification technology would be nice; something that would enable them to tell a judge credibly, “Let’s bring Joe Lunchbucket in and stretch him on the legal Rack.”

But something infinitely more important. Something that Copyright Holders and their National Security counterparties in government have pulled out ALL the stops to get. Something that they KNEW was so important that they made it a core attribute of PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, and now CISPA; and will. certainly, if CISPA fails to pass, make it THE major attribute of whatever new legislation takes its place.

That all essential something is Immunity from Liability.

Giving National Security Agencies and their Private sector Counterparties Immunity from Liability for damages caused to Individual citizens is NO AFTERTHOUGHT.

Why?

Think of the sheer scale of those liabilities!!   With all of its other priorities and all of its budgetary contraints, can even the American goverment absorb those liabilities? Are Copyright Holders rich enough today to sue tens or hundreds of millions of citizens under the current accountability where failed prosecutions could easily cost triple damages plus attorneys fees?

No sir!! Immunity from liability is NOT a choice for Copyright Holders and their government Counterparties. It is the Mother of all necessities.

Bad news.

Stopping American legislators from granting broad Immunity from Liability to the National Security Agencies and their Copyright Counterparties is the Mother of ALL necessities for each and every individual American citizen.

Why?

Because a Political System in which the National Security Agencies and their private sector counterparties have broad Immunity from liability is no longer a Democratic System. Isn’t that the crossed rubicon that defines a tyranny?
- Anonymous
  
  ”
  Because a Political System in which the National Security Agencies and their private sector counterparties have broad Immunity from liability is no longer a Democratic System. Isn’t that the crossed rubicon that defines a tyranny?”
  
  Yes. It is.
  
  A rubicon that to a large degree has already been crossed however. Take a look at the broadsides that have been fired at civil liberties already by the patriot acts, the information awareness acts etc. There is already in practice a total exemption of liability written into effect for most of the more gross miscarriages of justice imaginable.
  
  Case in point – it was found that 9 out of 10 of the original guantanamo bay detainees were, in fact, innocent. Care to guess how many have been given legal redress and how many decisionmakers punished?
  
  The Abu Ghraib torture scandal resulted in what – 5 grunts punished and no censure on anyone else, despite the trail leading, white-hot, all the way to a white house office at which point the investigation was hurriedly abandoned. Neither Cheney nor Wolfowicz or Rumsfeld ever took any blame for that one. And so on.
  For the main majority of the US citizenry the opportunity to gain redress relies solely on their ability to resolve which supra-legal department in the OoHS landed them in whatever mess they are currently experiencing. Against the hermetically sealed doors of top secret classification.
Gghn

time to rent a copter and head to Germany
- FuzzyDuck
  
  How would that serve him? He needs to get his company back. He needs to be compensated for damages. The only way to get that is through the NZ and US court system. He needs to stay and fight.
  
  If there is any justice in the world (a big IF) he should win. At the very least I’d expect the New Zealand justice system to work. Not so sure about the US one.
  - Anyone
    
    Germany doesn’t extradite its citizens
    so that would kinda help him.
    
    but he is one that has always faced legal challenges, despite his nickname “Kimble” he does not run ;)
    - FuzzyDuck
      
      I know that, my point was then he loses everything for sure, and he’ll never get his assets and company back. You can’t fight if you run.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Don’t they? Or do they do it ‘under the radar’ and not call it an extradition.
  - Anonymous
    
    Yes and no. I have heard very little about the NZ system and don’t know how easy it is to get a case against government upheld.
    
    US law on the other hand, does have ample precedence of cases against governmental overreaching it’s mandate succeeding.
    
    It all depends on whether the US can apply one or more of it’s more recent “Like hell we care” laws or not. If they can invoke anything from the Patriot Acts then Dotcom is screwed, for instance.
- Tgyvytfytf
  
  Redditors cannot afford shit
Jimbo

best of luck and best wishes to Kim and his crew. cant wait to see the service back up and running again unhindered. hope they can really find out the person that started this fiasco and take them to task over it, along with the US government and US law enforcement.
Ahha

Time to rename Mr. dotcom ! If they can’t sue you for copywrong reasons then they might go as far as to claim that they own you since you clearly are marked as “.com” property which we in the last few months have learned belongs to hollywood.
- Tgyvytfytf
  
  Or, chop woods. Seriously, I have spent more than 20 years working at fucking mcdonalds just to keep my family fed, and what do I get? Internet drama. Fuck you little shitkids, my only regret is not chopping my balls off.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    If you truly think that, leave your family immediately because you are probably doing more harm than good being around them.
foff

File sharing needs to legalized period. Coyright law was mean’t to prevent the unauthorized printing and distribution of hard media. It was never mean’t to deal with electronic bits. If megaupload relaunches at some point a lot of the other cyberlockers will come running back. What really bothers the fuck out me is why a third party should be held responsible. When you buy anything in a retail store you don’t sign a long disclaimer saying you will never use an item or knowingly allow an item to be used in an illegal manner. Why should any cyberlocker have to even entertain a takedown order. If I ran a service I would forward the takedown notice to the owner of the account and let them be responsible for taking it down.

I notice my slightly racist comment was censored. What shame that we can’t have total freedom to express ourselves and that we have to be censored by some overly sensitive politically correct pussies.
- Tgyvytfytf
  
  Not one fucks were given at you faggot
- Tgyvytfytf
  
  “What shame that I can’t have total freedom to express my shittalk and
  that we have to be censored by some overly sensitive politically correct
  pussies, for I have sands in vagina.”
  
  Fixed that for ya, cry some mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore
- Sfoxman
  
  You was not censored. You sad “slight racist”?! Racist is racist and has to be banned.
  - foff
    
    May be you ought to be banned for being off topic
- Anonymous
  
  Racism has no place in a forum where what is being discussed is primarily civil liberty issues.
  
  As would be expected in any forum where the main majority of the commentators tend to quote Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King Jr.
sm@rt

Enough money for him to buy megaupload.net! http://sedo.com/auction/auction_detail.php?auction_id=127178
- 88do
  
  He could start up a support site for his case :)
Anon

[quote]
but Judge Potter said that the Attorney General is not required to evaluate the legitimacy of the US order
[/quote]
Wow. So NZ is just America’s bitch then? They do what ever the US wants without question. Nice…
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Good point. When I saw that, I nearly choked on my soda, I was so incensed by that. Of COURSE it is the place of the Attorney General to evaluate the order before carrying it out, especially if the order is ILLEGAL like it was in this case.
  
  Yep, America cannot charge someone with a crime when they have never set foot in the United States, that is a settled part of international law, contrary to what Great Britain apparently thinks on the subject.
Diarrhea Splatters

“This Mega takedown was possible because of corruption on the highest
political level, serving the interests of the copyright extremists in
Hollywood”

So true!

Money is law in the US.
- No1_2_u
  
  Actually,
  money in the U.S. is God.
  
  I
  have always found it interesting that they print “In God We Trust” on their
  currency…
http://twitter.com/jaredstenquist jaredstenquist

The G55 AMG is $125,000. I’m not sure where the $250,000 number came from. One could argue that a license plate that says “POLICE” could be worth the other $125k.
Anonymous

The game is in favor for megaupload since FBI evidence is deemed inadmissible by NZ authorities meaning Kim has the upper advantage. Kim if you are there read this post and make sure USA does not delete all of that data.
Kimdotscam

wow — $300,000 and a mercedes — all because all of you dont want to pay those greedy record and movie companies.

huh?? Wise up, dumbasses.
- Anonymous
  
  300k’s peanuts and a Mercedes is minimum wage…….If Fat Kim were one of those greedy record and movie corp execs, it’ld be normal for him to fly himself to the corner drugstore in his 1 Billion dollar Lear Jet……
- Anonymous
  
  So, making money is in itself somehow bad? Even if the authorities cannot even show proof of guilt? Or raise a case?
  
  Historical evidence points at Kim dotcom being an angel as compared to the MPAA/RIAA and their clients.
- Fredrika
  
  > “..all because all of you dont want to pay those greedy record and movie companies.”
  
  You seem confused. There is nothing to pay the record and movie companies for, because they have not sold anything. On the free market entrepreneurs get paid when they sell something. Do you have a problem with the free market? Do you advocate a planned economy or communism?
Anonimator

Yay! Dotcom is back! Take that, you fat cat money laundering scammers from RIAA, MPAA etc who get rich by stealing from creative professionals’ revenues.

Now Kim can safely get his hands back on his expensive cars, and 10 million dollar mansion and…

Oh, wait.

Well, well – crime really DOES pay after all.

Or, as some might say, a victory for “sharing and freedom”. Whatever that may mean for a lot of people who apparently don’t work for a living.

It’s a wonderful world.
- Anonymous
  
  If they can’t make the charges stick, then it’s not a crime.
- Anonymous
  
  Nice little straw man there. Here’s a pro tip – start backing up acusations of tax fraud and crime with some evidence, hmm?
  
  Or GTFO when the adults debate whether it was a correct and proper execution of common jurisprudence to seize someone’s assets without being able to subsequently even raise a case against him.
  - Anonimator
    
    Just comparing activities. Big corporations do money laundering through tax havens, which is a kind of fraud in my view.
    Since Dotcom is also a corporation, I’m assuming he’s got some money stashed in those as well – like most billionares appear to have.
    
    But if you want harder facts, fine, here’s a little bit of adult reading for you, “Scary” Devil.
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/kim-dotcom/
    
    SELLING pirated software (how about that sharing, man?), phone fraud, personal info hacking, dodgy stock market manipulation, and other very commendable activities. A real people’s hero.
    
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/mega-man-the-bizarre-rise-and-sudden-downfall-of-kim-dotcom.ars
    
    You can thank me later. I could post more links, but you know where to find the info if you really want to.
    We’ll see how this whole thing will play out.
    
    As always, I am always impressed by your ability to filter out information that does not suit you, as well the way you quickly descend into swearing and name-calling when reality hits you in the face.
    
    Sleep tight, kid.
http://profile.yahoo.com/PBJF5EPLZB7LZLFZMGOHF2HLWY Ericka

like Brandon explained I’m stunned that anyone can get paid $6424 in one month on the internet. did you read this webpage (Click on menu Home more information) http://goo.gl/EzIsI
http://waiverform.org/ Waiver Form

Wow craziness who cares about the fat turd
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXX4S66KOUIGIKTTIMV3CBGO7Y Colin
  
  It’s not a question of, “who cares about the fat turd”, it’s a question of the American Empire not acting fairly and decently – to puit it very mildly. If they can do this to Kim Dotcom, what might they do to little guys like YOU if they or their MAFIAA paymasters decide it would be fun to put the squeeze on you.
- Mr. MoneySuit Monacle
  
  die in a fire g.i.joe
- FuzzyDuck
  
  I care more about Kim Dotcom than I care about you Blake Howe. You’re clearly of no added value to society.
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kim dot com as commando

Hey, what’s with Kim turning into Arnold Schwarzenegger in that picture? I understand he’s German but I thought he was a jolly fat fuck and not muscle bound like Arnold?
Yes his next movie would be starring Kim.Com taking on greedy Jews aka MPAA and RIAA. “They hunted Kim down and arrested his friends and they took the only thing he would kill for… his pirated movies! Now somehow somewhere, Jews are going to pay!”

Jews:”If you want your warez back, you gonna cooperate, right?”
Kim: “Wrong!”(then shoot the jew)

the end.
- FuzzyDuck
  
  Is anyone else is getting a little tired of racist comments around here?
  - Emanuel Sherman
    
    I have Jewish family members who are black, also some who are on the lighter side, there not greedy, have nothing to do with them damn billionair kiazers. Race has nothing to do with this shit. It’s all about money, power, control, whoever got all the money control every damn thing. Just follow that green paper trail you will see.
  - Anonymous
    
    Yes indeed. Normally I don’t believe in flagging comments – as I believe the best way of countering nonsense is to allow the comment to stand in public view and condemnation.
    
    But in this case even I was moved to flag. Using the micarriage of justice against Mr. Dotcom in order to grind an antisemitic axe is going too far. Hereby flagged.
    - Anonimator
      
      @Scary_Devil_Monastery:disqus
      @41e244bc463068c0a220c3685e8f088e:disqus
      Obviously, I’m with you on this one, and I’m dismayed to find that said comment still has not been removed.
      
      Keep flagging away.
http://starblogger.net/ Daniel

I think that the money is back for another project. :-).
TFloser

When the US are found to be in breech of international law with the takedown of Kim Dotcom and Megaupload, Kim will rise stronger than ever. The Megaupload civil countersuit should be fun as our hard stored datums become US taxpayer funded. The US may end on funding large data for the peoples of earth. LOL!
ha-ha

murrika. too fucking stupid for democracy & arrogant as fuck. now you will pay the price
UncleSamTortureKits

Peasants can’t have blue blood.
MegaUpload was about to have an IPO.
Meaning this peasant would have had some power.
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We won’t have that…
Anonymous

Fuck the MAFIAA ! Your Day will come soon.More and more will rise to topple your Corrupt shit into the waste where it belongs.
And you too Washington DC.No Empire has ever lasted forever.You are a corrupt sack of shit and soon I foresee the people rise up and give you the tar & feathers you so richly deserve.
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Anonymous

New Zealand is a pawn to the US Federal Prosecutor’s office. If I were a New Zealander I would be outrages.
- Richardperham
  
  I am and I am.. can’t wait to see Dotcom vindicated in the law.. Sad his business is screwed though
Emanuel Sherman

First person to scratch there head with a thought or idea gets a BAR of SOPA as PIPA Picka Pica out the nose of Hollywood Vipers sinking there fangs in silicon diapers.

While CRISPA shits a string of Pixilated copyrighting no good to 2 bit liars.
Living In a land of corruption? The entire government everywhere is corrupted. Religion and politics is a two headed snake chocking the life out of all living things on the earth.
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Guest

HAHAHA… as usual JEWZ LOSE in the end.

Take that kikes.
http://profile.yahoo.com/3ABHMZQH6B77U2IPQGOGMDDJDE Joshua

like Frederick implied I am startled that anybody able to earn $6870 in a few weeks on the computer. have you read this web site (Click on menu Home more information) http://goo.gl/fC29u
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http://www.galaxyvisions.com/ Marsha Wesley

Earlier this week Dotcom’s US lawyer Ira Rothken said they are confident that this is not the case.
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http://www.megauploads.co.uk/ File sharer Fellow

Megauploads.co.uk ???? the return?
Tom Abbott

Thought he had a new domain – megauploads.co.uk

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