The Supreme Court in New Zealand has ruled that MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the US to face criminal copyright infringement charges in relation to his long-defunct file-transfer platform. However, in something of a mixed bag ruling, the top court also provided Dotcom and his former colleagues with an extra route of appeal before any extradition actually takes place.
Authorities in the US have been trying to extradite Dotcom ever since they shut down MegaUpload on copyright grounds back in 2012. Dotcom’s lawyers have argued that there are no grounds for extraditing their client, mainly because the extradition treaty between the US and New Zealand does not cover copyright infringement.
