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Re:New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US by foxylad on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:51PM (#10781841)
I must admit I'm surprised at this verdict. I agree he probably has broken US copyright law, but the crown also broke several laws while conducting the case - data from his servers was sent to the US without legal authorisation, for instance.

From a non-legal perspective, many Kiwis are uneasy at the level of force that the police used in the raid, and also at just how far NZ police bent over backwards at the behest of an overseas commercial entity.

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Re:New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US by xupybd on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:57PM (#10781863)
Yeah, that is the thing, as a Kiwi, I'm very uneasy about the influence of US law in NZ. I've got no problem with dot com going to Jail, but under the laws of the countries he does business in. They are stretching the extradition treaty pretty far on this one. No one is saying Kim is a saint, but I'd like to think as a New Zeland citizen my country would not give me up the US for breaking US laws, while on NZ soil.
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