Kim Dotcom extradition delayed until March
"Kim Dotcom is a victim of FBI, Crown Law and police incompetence on every level. Now we see proof as to the maxim "Justice delayed is justice denied"."
Featured commentKim Dotcom's extradition hearing has been delayed more than six months as defence and Crown lawyers continue to battle the case in court.
A three-week hearing due begin on August 6 has been adjourned until the end of March.
Crown law office spokeswoman Jan Fulstow could not tell NBR ONLINE if there would be any extra costs because of the delay.
She says there is "no reason to assume" there would be extra costs.
NBR ONLINE sought comment from opposition parties, including the Greens, Act and NZ First, on the likely increased cost to the taxpayers of the delay but they were not interested.
Internet guru Mr Dotcom's New Zealand-based lawyer Willie Akel told NBR ONLINE the delay is not what the defence wanted.
"It's certainly disappointing, but it was inevitable as a result of the judicial review applications and potential appeals from court decisions."
There have already been two judicial reviews; one into the legality of the search warrants used when police raided Mr Dotcom's Coatesville mansion, and one on Judge David Harvey's decision to allow Mr Dotcom access to the evidence the FBI holds against him.
On Twitter, Mr Dotcom posted, "The NZ government is refusing an NZ resident due process and a fair defense. Shame on you John Key for allowing this to happen. Shame on you" and "Extradition hearing delayed til March. Dirty delay tactics by the US. They destroyed my business. Took all my assets. Time does the rest."
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Kim Dotcom is a victim of FBI, Crown Law and police incompetence on every level. Now we see proof as to the maxim "Justice delayed is justice denied".
Shouldn't the minister for tourism step in at some point?
That is John Key.
too busy counting the money he has in the bank to worry about the serf's he overlords over. If you think a goldman sachs employee is going to say anything bad about this you are seriously joking
If you are referring to John Key, he never worked for Goldman Sachs.
My key worked for Merrill Lynch, variously known as the lynch mob.
So...the lobbyist-driven FBI et al get to take down a major business without even proving any guilt in court, and this is supposed to all be okay. Now they simply delay justice because they fouled everything up in the first place.
As Kim Dotcom tried to explain to the bewildered Court nearly 6 months ago there are 12 billion (12,000,000,000) unique files on the Megaupload servers. If all the music and movies that were ever made were uploaded to the site they would only number around 100 million (0.8 % of the total content). So, let's say 50% of all the movies and songs that exist are there on the servers. Then there is an allegation by the FBI that there was a huge "conspiracy" between Kim and others running the company to direct users of the site towards that content, albeit 0.4% of the total site content. Give over. The internet as a whole would be no more legitimate. Would we tolerate the FBI pulling the plug on the whole thing? Would doing so even help the copyrighters who are complainants? It would actually destroy their businesses too.
Say the company had existed for 27 rather than just 7 years. Say that Roy Orbison had personally uploaded a video of himself and KD Lang singing "Crying". It makes my skin crawl to think that these morons now have custody of it, and the ability to delete it all without thought. And having that there doesn't hurt the copyrighter. Quite the opposite. Having downloaded it from You Tube I would be quite keen to get a copy of an original
give him his money back and all files should be returned. the atorney general should be sacked along with commisioner of police and the deputy . to knowingly use the powers of the state illigally is as bad as as the worst . they expect respect what joke.
US Govt is 'the enemy' they have no morals, send death threats to anyone example: PM David Lange. They ignore the rights of individual countries. the break there own constitution laws agaist the citzens. they disenfranchised voters if you don't pay taxs. the poor have a voice..lol... democracy? please! who is the US Federal Reserve? Constitution laws, yeah right.
Who is JohKey? only four advisors to the NY Federal Reserve. in 2000 derivatives trading that 2008 caused the GFC....
go back to sleep ZZZzzzZZzzZZz
JPMorgan admits to losing $5.8 billion this year so far
who paids dotcoms bills for six months? this is totaly unfair!