Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has been arrested in New Zealand on copyright and copyright infringement charges. Dotcom is accused of earning $175 million in subscription and advertising revenue from their file-sharing site. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a criminal racketeering charge in the case, which carries a five-year maximum sentence. A judge said Friday that he doesn’t know that Dotcom’s extradition to the United States might proceed, or the charges against him even stick. The FBI requested that the 1,100 servers that still store Megapload data be allowed to be deleted.”]
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