Kim Dotcom loses extradition case
Process arguments aside (and there may be process arguments that demolish the US case here, and I care about process too, especially if they involve getting evidence in bogus ways):<p>The US has Kim Schmitz dead to rights in this case.<p>There's a whole mythology about what MegaUpload actually was, and it gets partial anecdotal support from people who, for instance, used it or had friends who used it solely as a sort of Dropbox or benign file transmission method.<p>But when the DOJ imaged the servers, they got Schmitz's mail spools, and they have Schmitz and his employees in black- and- white discussing payment systems that disbursed cash to users specifically based on pirated media.<p>My favorite anecdote from the indictment:<p>At one point during the operation of MegaUpload, a user downloaded an episode of Dexter from it, and complained to Schmitz via email that the video quality was low.<p>Schmitz responded not by scrubbing Dexter off his site, but instead by demanding that his staff fix the video quality issues.