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Kim Dotcom released on bail, apparently no longer a flight risk
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article published on 21 February, 2012
Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now defunct cyberlocker Megaupload, has been released on bail, after a judge surprisingly decreed he was no longer too much of a flight risk.
Following a raid last month, Dotcom was arrested in New Zealand and his assets seized including cars, cash and a mansion. Dotcom was denied bail twice, due to access to money and jets but the latest judge has granted ... [ read the full article ]
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22. February 2012 @ 00:35 |
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Yeah buddy. Good luck with that one.
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nbfreak2
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22. February 2012 @ 07:13 |
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Well they took all his money not much of a flight risk now?.....
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22. February 2012 @ 10:53 |
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He might as well stay in jail. Where is the poor bastard to go? A cardboard box just outside the doors of the courthouse? I can only imagine the ulcer these people are brewing over this.
We've been so damned quick to hear the smear campaign & damnation of this guy & his company in the media over the last month (or two) yet haven't heard shite in his defense. I mean 'really', where the hell is his team of lawyers? You know, the ones with the bar codes at the base of their skulls.
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22. February 2012 @ 12:34 |
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any lawyer half his salt could get the release of the funds to mount a defense or at least with that kind of money at stake and his freedom maybe he'd be willing to cut a team of lawyers a deal to rep for him.. and then go after those bastards for screwing with him in the first place...
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22. February 2012 @ 16:05 |
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Originally posted by mystic:
any lawyer half his salt could get the release of the funds to mount a defense or at least with that kind of money at stake and his freedom maybe he'd be willing to cut a team of lawyers a deal to rep for him.. and then go after those bastards for screwing with him in the first place...
That's exactly what I was thinking. Yet we have heard nothing of the sort in rebuttal. Unless it's a form of defense to literally keep from showing anything of his hand?
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24. February 2012 @ 08:04 |
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Originally posted by LordRuss:
Originally posted by mystic:
any lawyer half his salt could get the release of the funds to mount a defense or at least with that kind of money at stake and his freedom maybe he'd be willing to cut a team of lawyers a deal to rep for him.. and then go after those bastards for screwing with him in the first place...
That's exactly what I was thinking. Yet we have heard nothing of the sort in rebuttal. Unless it's a form of defense to literally keep from showing anything of his hand?
What do you think the odds are on getting access to any of the information the government has seized and sealed? The government and their biggest "donors" are busy building a railroad right up the a**es of these guys.
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24. February 2012 @ 12:52 |
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Originally posted by llongtheD:
What do you think the odds are on getting access to any of the information the government has seized and sealed? The government and their biggest "donors" are busy building a railroad right up the a**es of these guys.
Slim to none... not to mention the fact that the government has probably destroyed evidence. This is obvious given their lack of concern over legitimate data on the servers prior to public outrage before allowing people to get their information off of them earlier this month (or whenever).
Theoretically, seeing as this guy has been arrested, if he were in the US, under freedom of information/disclosure, we could get a 'bulk' account of the charges & counter claims as they would be public record. That's how our system works. I can't answer for other countries (obviously).
I'm kind of surprised that Anonymous hadn't made some kind of swim through a couple of servers after the 5-6 data farms like Megaupload that had been taken down. As I understand it, The Pirate Bay & possibly a couple other torrent vendors are looking to get smacked around again here real quick.
I'm really beginning to wish the consumer protection lawyers would grow some balls like these copyright & alphabet Nazi lawyers have.
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17. March 2012 @ 21:36 |
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Blunder may see Dotcom's assets returned
Internet piracy accused Kim Dotcom could get millions of dollars worth of assets back after a legal blunder over the court order used to seize the items.
Dozens of cars and bank accounts, property, jewellery, artworks and jet skis were among the assets seized from the Megaupload website founder after he was arrested on January 20 after a police raid on his mansion.
High Court Justice Judith Potter on Friday declared the restraining order "null and void" as a result of a legal blunder by police and Crown Law, the Herald on Sunday reports.
The order had "no legal effect".
Police Commissioner Peter Marshall had applied for the incorrect restraining order, and "confused" legal moves by opting for one which did not give Dotcom a chance to mount a defence, Justice Potter said.
Crown lawyer Anne Toohey wrote to the court on January 30, outlining five errors with the initial application.
She enclosed an application for a new, retrospective restraining order, which has been granted temporarily.
However, Justice Potter said she would soon make a ruling on whether the mistake should result in Dotcom getting his assets back.
Dotcom's lawyers have challenged the error, saying the assets "must be released" because they were "unlawfully seized and restrained under the order".
Dotcom and his three co-accused, Finn Abated, 38, and Mathias Ortmann, both of Germany, and Dutch national Bram van der Calk, 29, are on bail awaiting extradition to face charges in the United States of racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.
A provisional start date for the extradition hearing, which could take three weeks, has been set down for August 20.
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http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-storie...ssets-returned/
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18. March 2012 @ 13:55 |
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The extradition should therefore be null & void under the same auspices. BS is BS. Desperation is a funky cologne... We can all smell it.
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