Kim Dotcom Allowed To Record Album, Use Internet

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, is being allowed back online.

Dotcom was previously denied Internet access under bail conditions imposed by New Zealand authorities after his January arrest. He remains under house arrest.

U.S. prosecutors seeking to extradite Dotcom accuse him of racketeering by facilitating millions of illegal downloads of copyrighted material on his website.

New Zealand Judge David Harvey on Monday said Dotcom's behavior since his arrest appears to have been "exemplary."

The judge ruled Dotcom could access the Internet, go swimming once a day, travel twice a week to an Auckland studio to record music, and meet once a week with his co-accused Megaupload colleagues ahead of an August extradition hearing.

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• New Zealand Arrests Web Baron

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• MegaUpload Founder's Lavish Lifestyle Interrupted By Arrest

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• Megaupload Founder Held In Custody

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• Bail Ruling To Come For Dotcom In New Zealand

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• Kim Dotcom Bail Denied In NZ

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• Kim Dotcom Wins Bail

• Megaupload Founder Will Fight Piracy Charges

• Kim Dotcom Granted Internet Access

• Original Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Invalid

  A New Zealand judge has ruled the warrants police used to raid Kim Dotcom's estate in January were invalid.

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Comments

[jxsilicon9]

05:08 PM on 04/17/2012

Where did they get the calculation that he took half a billion from copyright holders? Do they have proof that people would have paid copyright holders for that information? So they would have spent money on your copyright junk instead of a buying a megaupload subscription? I don't' think so. They would have just went to p2p,torrents or anywhere else.

[billnazer]

05:24 PM on 04/12/2012

MegaUpload is DEAD!
You can use http://BillionUploads.com
Instead!

[derekw007]

12:13 AM on 04/04/2012

Looks like he's been MegaUploading double bacon cheeseburgers into his face for far too long. Hey Curly, maybe it's time to download an orange or something.

[ShaneAtkinsBiz]

05:17 PM on 04/03/2012

All this money and he's overweight.

[Rubyfoo]

05:14 PM on 04/03/2012

The Dotcom family name goes back 12 generations to an obscure Swedish clan, which until recently lived as the only inhabitants of a fjord.

[dwyer222]

02:58 PM on 04/03/2012

Let me guess: a diet?

[Ironsi]

01:07 PM on 04/03/2012

Looks like he removed focus on the thing that matter most: himself. Lose some weight, buddy.

It is actually doable.

[teahag]

12:58 PM on 04/03/2012

not working on diet and exercise

[IBDrumz]

11:53 AM on 04/03/2012

I see all the half-wits are on here talking about his weight (no, I'm not defending obesity) not knowing anything else. Most likely the same people that rail against Holder and the DOJ are now on their side, fauxbots!

[SuperBenFranklin]

10:35 AM on 04/03/2012

Big fat thief.

[IBDrumz]

11:50 AM on 04/03/2012

Nonsense, I see you believe the DOJ when it's convenient for you.

[SuperBenFranklin]

11:54 AM on 04/03/2012

I don't care what the DOJ says.

I know this guy had a crooked business built on making money on other people's stuff.

[bmwracer]

09:58 AM on 04/03/2012

He should be working on losing some weight... About one bakery truck's worth.

[MichaelMcKLA]

04:24 AM on 04/03/2012

Headline: You'll Never Believe What Megaupload Founder Is Working On Now

What I believe: He's planning to run a marathon while simultaneously eating a bucket of KFC. Awkward but doable.

[mashud]

08:50 AM on 04/03/2012

funny enough, I thought he was announcing that he was joining a gym.

[parabq]

12:25 AM on 04/03/2012

Good for this judge !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obviuosly hes not afraid of the american intimidation !!! great news !

[mashud]

08:52 AM on 04/03/2012

no, hes not afraid of American intimidation. but he is afraid of exercise.

[Jack Boats]

12:18 AM on 04/03/2012

I wonder who the skinny brunette walking the dog by his rental is? It's good to be a Dotcom.

[Jack Boats]

12:05 AM on 04/03/2012

This guys got so much dirt on everybody he's gonna walk/swim for sure.

[Ginzu Mawa]

02:48 PM on 04/03/2012

Also - he didnt commit a crime... he provided infra structure.

this is an attack on alternate distribution models. they are concened that bottom up commerical feature length projects dont even have to care about major studios for a wide release.

& BTW data attack has an advantage of data defense. even the FBI cannot protect data. its the reality of the world we live in now. IP businesses have been warned for decades.

[Jack Boats]

08:56 PM on 04/03/2012

I agree, he found a giant loop hole NPI and happened to be the big fish the feds went after to scare all the little ones away from the truth you mentioned. Best to keep a low profile when swimming with sharks.