Stefan Mileschin

He can be extradited, but can still appeal

Moves to lock Kim Dotcom up for a thousand years in a US jail have hit yet another snag.

The US authorities have been trying to get him extradited from his New Zealand mansion for ages so that he can face copyright charges. The extradition case has reached New Zealand's Supreme Court which ruled that the US could have him if it wanted. But at the same time it overturned another lower court's decision, effectively granting him the right to appeal.

The court ruled that Dotcom and his three co-accused were liable for extradition on 12 of the 13 counts the FBI is seeking to charge them with.

But it also ruled that the Court of Appeal had erred in dismissing judicial review requests from Dotcom, and granted him the right to continue with them.

The FBI alleges that Megaupload facilitated copyright infringement on a huge scale, but Dotcom's lawyers argue that the website was never meant to encourage copyright breaches.

If he is extradited, he faces a lengthy jail term.

https://fudzilla.com/news/51826-kim-...in-legal-limbo