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Re:From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tell... by chris11 on Friday June 24, 2016 @06:59PM (#11974148)
I wouldn't exactly say that the system has let Kim off at all. Sure, he hasn't spent any serious time in jail, but it's just because the U.S. hasn't been able to get him extradited. In fact they've pursued him so aggressively that it's helped his fight against extradition.
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Re:From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tell... by jerguismi on Saturday June 25, 2016 @12:02AM (#11975150)
And the other employees and Kim probably didn't come voluntarily to US. The US government would be happy to have Kim thrown to prison as well, but they haven't been able to catch him.

"Like Dotcom, Nõmm next spent a significant amount of time fighting extradition. But eventually in 2015, he voluntarily traveled to the US and was arrested in Virginia."

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