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When folk have no anti(something) protests to go to, in NZ, they turn their minds to other things:

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"The assistant noticed that the notes were fake, as they were printed on paper and the hologram, taken from a genuine $50 note, had been attached using sellotape.”  

Brilliant! I’ve got lots of $100 notes, now I can make lots more and no one will know !

 

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Considered putting this in the "Quality German Tourist" thread. 😀

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US, NZ justice minister says

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
New Zealand's justice minister has signed an extradition order for internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the United States.

New Zealand's justice minister has signed an extradition order for internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the United States. 

The German-born Mr Dotcom has been fighting extradition to the US since 2012, following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion.

What's next? 

Mr Dotcom has posted on social media platform X, saying "I'm not leaving".

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, will be extradited to the United States from New Zealand, according to that country's justice minister.

The German-born Mr Dotcom, who is a self-described "internet freedom fighter", has been fighting extradition to the US since 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion.

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has signed an extradition order for Mr Dotcom, a spokesperson for the minister said on Thursday. 

"I considered all of the information carefully, and have decided that Mr Dotcom should be surrendered to the US to face trial," Mr Goldsmith said in a statement.

"As is common practice, I have allowed Mr Dotcom a short period of time to consider and take advice on my decision. 

"I will not, therefore, be commenting further at this stage."

In a post on social media platform X on Tuesday, Mr Dotcom said "the obedient US colony in the South Pacific just decided to extradite me for what users uploaded to Megaupload", in what appears to be a reference to the extradition order.

He followed up the post with one saying "I love New Zealand. I'm not leaving 😘".

Reuters could not immediately contact Mr Dotcom for a response.

US authorities say Mr Dotcom and three other Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $US500 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material, which generated more than $US175 million in revenue for the website.

A New Zealand court previously ruled in 2015 that Mr Dotcom be extradited to the US to face online piracy charges.

The company's chief marketing officer Finn Batato and chief technical officer and co-founder, Mathias Ortmann, both from Germany, along with a third executive, Dutch national Bram van der Kolk, were arrested with Mr Dotcom in 2012.

Ortmann and van der Kolk entered plea deals that saw them sentenced in 2023 to jail terms in New Zealand but allowed them to avoid extradition. 

Mr Batato died in 2022 in New Zealand.

Reuters

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-15/kim-dotcom-to-be-extradited-to-the-us/104231474

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We are of course grateful to:

Kim Schmitz, (also known as Kimble, Kim Dotcom and Kim Tim Jim Vestor. Born on 21 January 1974 in Kiel, West Germany.)

for spending some of his vast wealth in our place, and less grateful for the vast cartoon monstrosities he spent it on.

 

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