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With a New Zealand District Court ruling on Wednesday that Kim Dotcom was eligible to be sent to the United States to face criminal charges, the internet tycoon has remained defiant and said he plans to fight the decision until the very end.
The internet entrepreneur has been battling extradition charges for almost four years, alongside his three co-accused Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batatohas. But in delivering his verdict on Wednesday, presiding Judge Nevin Dawson said all four men needed to be sent to the US to stand trial.
Following the decision, the state asked for the bail conditions of Dotcom and his co-accused to be made harsher, requiring a daily check-in.
But after protests from Dotcom’s lawyers, Dawson reduced the check-in time to twice a week.
For Dotcom, though, the story is far from over.
“This is not the last word on the matter,” a smiling Dotcom told a mob of journalists outside the Auckland District court on Wednesday.
“I’m still on bail, and we will go through the whole process until the end.”
He admitted he was disappointed, but still wished everyone a Merry Christmas before departing.
Dotcom, alongside Ortman, Batato, and van der Kolk have been battling extradition to the US where they are accused of running an elaborate criminal internet piracy conspiracy stemming from the now closed file storing website, Megaupload.
They face charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud, and two kinds of criminal copyright infringement based on an FBI investigation going back to 2010.
In 2012, US authorities shut down Megaupload and arrested its proprietors and Dotcom was dramatically arrested in a Hollywood-style raid on his Coatesville mansion.
In September, the tech mogul finally faced Auckland District Court with Christine Gordon QC saying at the time that when distractions are stripped away, the evidence boils down to a simple scheme of fraud.
During the trial, Gordon said a series of messages between the men showed they knew authorities would eventually come for them. In reply, Dotcom accused US authorities of deliberately mistranslating statements he made in German in order to create a case against him.
Dotcom’s lawyers had claimed the case was unfair and that the US had kept them from hiring experts by freezing their assets, amongst a number of other requests to drop the case altogether.
Although Dawson did not have to decide on the guilt of the men, only if they had legitimate charges to face in the US, he was not convinced, however, that the case was unfair.
“This court is satisfied none of the submissions made … come close to breaching the duty of candour and good faith,” he said.
The four had not come “anywhere near” to undermining the case, he added.
Their lawyers immediately said they would be appealing to the High Court and now have 15 days to lodge it in writing.
Due to the massive amount of evidence, Dawson gave Dotcom and his entourage until late February to get their case together.
The ruling means Justice Minister Amy Adams must now decide whether to extradite them.
In a statement she said she would wait to see if an appeal would be lodged before commenting.
During a 10-week extradition hearing, lawyers for the US argued the men had earned $175 million by running a website funded largely by revenue from publishing copyright-infringing files. They said the website had paid money for people to illegally upload copyright-infringing files and then charged others to watch them.
Dotcom’s lawyer, Ron Mansfield, said the website was protected by “dual-use” defences — just like video recorders — where a company could not be responsible for the illegal use of products with other legitimate purposes.
Throughout the three-and-a-half year wait for Dotcom, it was discussed that his foundation charge, copyright violation, was not a criminal offence in New Zealand, and under that proviso, it was said he could not be extradited to the US for that, highlighting the other two charges built on top needed to be sustained.
If eventually extradited and found guilty in the US, Dotcom, Ortman, Batato, and van der Kolkcould be up for decades in jail.
“Don’t you worry. Nobody is ruining our Christmas! All good,” Dotcom posted on Twitter after his hearing on Wednesday.
One for keeping himself busy in between court appearances, having previously toyed with politics with the Internet Party, Dotcom revealed in October that his latest brainchild Meganet is an alternate internet he said is safe, secure, and impenetrable by anyone, even government bodies.
With AAP
The skies of Syria are becoming somewhat crowded.
The country is in the midst of a long running civil war, while the brutal dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad tries to fight a large number of varied rebel factions. This of course includes radical militants and ISIS.
The war isn’t very well for anyone and its pulled in foreign states as well. In Eastern Syria, a Western coalition (including the USA) is launching attacks against ISIS. Russia also recently became involves and sent its military to support the Assad regime, and the Russians have been carrying out airstrikes as well. The skies are increasingly congested, and so this happens:
That is a US Airforce MQ-9 Reaper drone used by the United States in carrying out targeted assasinations.
This short video was uploaded to YouTube by the Russian Defense Ministry and was taken from the interior of a Russian jets cockpit. The video is captioned:
“The presence of aerial vehicles in the air space of Syria has increased.”
Beachgoers in Coffs Harbour, Australia may have seen a drone apparently filming during the week.
The drone is looking for sharks, sending footage back to a Government operator.
Shark hunter drones are a major part of the Government’s shark mitigation strategy, after a series of fatal attacks.
A Government representative stated:
“These are the first of several trials that will get underway across the state’s beaches this summer as we take an integrated approach to working out a long-term solution.”
Here is some further drone footage, taken in the USA.
A white dwarf star, just imaged by a team at the University of Warwick, has a bright red ring circling it, created by the dead star’s oblitertion of space debris that orbits overly close. The rock ring circling the white dwarf star is composed of rock and dust particles. The new photo shows an asteroid destroyed by the star’s gravitational forces and sent in to an orbit around the star.
The work was compiled by a group of researchers in the university’s Astrophysics Dept. The leader of the research team stated:
The diameter of the gap inside of the rock ring is about half the size of the Sun.
The reddish glow is caused by ultraviolet light from within the star. Although scientists have been aware for some decades that these debris rings exist, this is the first time a group has been able to capture imagery of the ring type, giving scientists unprecedented access to the data.
The photograph of the rings is a composite of a number of images taken utilizing Doppler tomography.. Using this system, the scientists were able to capture certain aspects of the structure that would not have been captured using a single photo.
This photo is a glimpse of what our own solar system will look like in the distant future.
It’s over 12 months since Apple launched the mobile payment serviceand now Australians that carry an American Express card can use the Apple Pay feature which may eventually cause physical debit and credit cards to become an extinct species.
The feature operates through an application on an iPhone6 in the same way your chip-enabled bank card works with a shop’s payment systems.
You basically hold your phone near the reader terminal then click and you are done.
Apple Pay can be used on iPhone 6 onwards and all other new Apple devices
So finally – Apple has announced that the long awaited iPad Pro will be available to order from Apple.com on November 11. They stated that the device will be available in stores by the 14th.
Prices are somewhat steep for the iPad Pro – starting at $799 for WiFi only model, to $1079 for the WiFi and 4G LTE version.
Further details about the new iPad Pro are available at Apple’s website.
The device is available in other countries this week.
So now the main regulatory agencies in the US, Canada, and Europe permit the use of electronics during takeoff and landing. This is referred to as “gate-to-gate” device use. So you may be able to use your device during your entire flight.
If you’ve ever been asked by a strict Lufthansa stewardess to pack away your iPad or laptop during a flight, you’ll be pleased to hear that those terrible days are in the past.
However each airline is permitted to set its own internal rules. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) don’t set rules that can apply to all air carriers. They permit each airline to choose to embrace this revision. Airlines want to keep their passengers satisfied, so they’re generally allowing gate-to-gate device use. Not all carriers have accepted the change so some carriers won’t allow this useage on-board.
There are various rules for your small portable devices as well as larger computers. Essentially, any device the size of an iPad or smaller fits this bill.
These smaller devices can be used during takeoff and landing as long as you hold them.
Laptops aren’t included in this update. These need to be stowed during take-off and landing. You can still use the laptop during the flight.
Any devices do need to be in airplane mode.
The FCC is considering permitting cellular connectivity above 10,000 feet.
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