Extradition looms for Kim Dotcom

Colourful internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the US to face criminal copyright charges, a New Zealand judge ruled. Dotcom’s lawyers said they will appeal against the decision.

Judge Nevin Dawson’s ruling came nearly four years after US authorities shut down Dotcom’s file-sharing website Megaupload, which was once one of the Internet’s most popular sites.

Prosecutors say it raked in at least £117m, (€159.9m) mainly from people using it to illegally download movies.