Kim DotCom extradition hearing postponed until 2013
Found on CNet News on Tuesday, 10 July 2012
The extradition hearing for MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom has been postponed to next year over questions about the legality of evidence seized with search warrants later declared invalid.
The legality of the evidence seized was called into question last month when a New Zealand judge ruled that the warrants did not adequately describe the offenses alleged and as such were invalid. She also ruled that it was unlawful for the data confiscated in the raid to have been copied by the FBI and sent offshore.
This delay obviously only benefits Hollywood, unless Megaupload is allowed to go back online again until everything is sorted out, because for now, all the "evidence" turned out to be pretty flimsy. Not to mention the illegal raid. So it would be only fair to make Megaupload accessible again; after all, right now it still is a perfectly legal service. This effectively ruins Megaupload, like Hollywood planned it, and the USA will simply refuse to pay any damages.