Maybe I’m just completely ignorant of law, but how/why can he be extradited to a foreign country in this manner? Did he previously reside in and operate out of the US?
Y’know those spam calls you get? Where they try to say they are the government? The reason they get away with that is that your country doesn’t have an extradition agreement with their country.
That’s a drastic oversimplification but it’s still true
Maybe I’m just completely ignorant of law, but how/why can he be extradited to a foreign country in this manner? Did he previously reside in and operate out of the US?
He made US companies lose money, while making money himself. Thats all they need.
Not even that, the service he operated might have been used such that US companies might have missed out on potential revenue.
That’s it.
Ironically, companies made revenue using megaupload in the past.
I recall getting first party .exes from megaupload prior to the huge Google Cloud push.
NZ has an extradition treaty with the the US.
Apparently potential copyright infringement is extradition worthy
Many countries have extradition agreements.
Y’know those spam calls you get? Where they try to say they are the government? The reason they get away with that is that your country doesn’t have an extradition agreement with their country.
That’s a drastic oversimplification but it’s still true