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Permalink Reply by Nathan on August 8, 2012 at 4:47pm

Megaupload Home Raid Queried As 'Over The Top' By Police ... A New  Zealand police officer overseeing plans for a raid on the home of Kim  Dotcom, the Megaupload.com website founder, questioned whether the use  of helicopters was "over the top," according to court testimony.  German-born Dotcom, who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz, was  arrested at his residence and spent four weeks in jail before being  released to await the extradition hearing ... Dotcom testified today he  was beaten by police, although he didn't resist arrest and waited with  his hands raised. The Dotcom mansion is valued at NZ$30 million ($25  million), according to an article on the stuff.co.nz website. The  property is also known as the "Chrisco mansion," because it was built by  the founders of a Christmas hamper company of the same name. Winkelmann  had ruled June 28 that police had relied on illegal warrants that were  overly broad. An extradition hearing is scheduled for March. – Bloomberg

Dominant Social Theme: Get this guy! He's too big to arrest in the normal way.

Free-Market Analysis: The more we hear about the arrest of Kim  Dotcom, the more disturbing the story becomes. Now it turns out he may  have been beaten up by the police, even though he didn't resist arrest.  And that was before he spent a month in jail.

Let's try to summarize what happened to Kim Dotcom. He built from  scratch one of the first and largest file-sharing facilities in the  world, accounting for perhaps four percent of the world's Internet  traffic at any one time.

As part of Dotcom's ascension within the industry, he apparently  helped invent or at least popularize cloud computing. And before he was  arrested he was working on an imaginative way for artists to present  their music directly over Megaupload's facilities without the need for a  record company's sponsorship.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan on August 16, 2012 at 9:50am

FBI must release Dotcom evidence - Judge

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0816/breaking11.html

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