The entertainment industry cites Megaupload, a cyberlocker that did more than $100 million in business (e.g., from membership fees), as an example of piracy. Megaupload operated from Hong Kong and New...

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Kim Dotcom
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Kim Dotcom
Controversial internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has launched his final call for his extradition from New Zealand to the United States for copyright-related costs. The FBI has always claimed that by facilitating the illegal sharing of files, the Megaupload website Kim Dotcom has made millions of dollars (Rogers 46). However, at the 2019 trial, Kim Dotcom's lawyer told the New Zealand Supreme Court that this was in no way in favour of copyright infringement. Since 2015, King’s defendants have filed invalid appeals to the New Zealand Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, which ultimately led to a final Supreme Court appeal in 2019 (Fowler 2021).
In a recent lawsuit, Kim Dotcom sought compensation after the illegal termination of Dotcom’s private communications. In this Court of Appeal, Kim Dotcom stated that the special pro-procedure procedure was flawed. However, the Court of Appeal denied the support of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB). Dotcom then sought to refer the appeal to the Supreme Court of New Zealand. In January 2020, the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Dotcom’s right to appeal and required Dotcom to pay GCSB $ 2,500. The current situation is that if Kim Dotcom, who has always refused to sue him, is extradited and subsequently convicted, he could face long-term imprisonment in the United States (Kennedy and Warren 6). This is evidenced by the fact that the US Department of Justice has been extraditing so-called cybercrime offenders since 2012, and in 2015 the New Zealand District Court granted the extradition.
By identifying the positive and negative rights associated with the Kim Dotcom case, it should be noted that Kim Dotcom created the Megaupload network lock in 2005 and earned millions of dollars from rewarded subscriptions to its website and promotions. At its peak, Dotcom was the thirteenth most popular website on the Internet, accounting for about 4% of global online traffic. However, in 2012, the FBI continued to sue the owners of the Dotcom website, alleging that they had infringed copyright extensively within the scope of their information and by placing illegal movies, music, and software files (Rogers 2015). The FBI further claimed that Dotcom had caused about $ 500 million in damage to music and film producers. Kim Dotcom and his business associates claimed that the Dotcom website, which was shut down in 2012, was built only as a network lock to share and store large files. This is a fact that Kim...