“DotCom is accused by the United States of operating MegaUpload as a piracy enterprise and is fighting an attempt to extradite him from New Zealand to the U.S.,” Sandoval reports. “In an exclusive e-mail interview yesterday with CNET, Wozniak made it clear that he fully supports DotCom. ‘When crimes occur through the mail, you don’t shut the post office down,’ Wozniak wrote. ‘When governments dream up charges of ‘racketeering’ for a typical IT guy who is just operating a file-sharing service, or accuse him of mail fraud because he said he had removed files [to alleged infringing content] when he’d just removed the links to them, this is evidence of how poorly thought out the attempt to extradite him is. Prosecutors are attempting to take advantage of loopholes. Too bad for the U.S. government that DotCom lives in New Zealand, which is better on human rights.’”
Sandoval reports, “The United States and New Zealand seized DotCom’s assets and now are fighting attempts by MegaUpload to have enough money returned to pay legal fees. About that Wozniak said: ‘How unfair that the United States will allow him living expenses out of his frozen assets but not give him any legal fees. The side with access to the funds spends millions on lawyers hoping the other side goes bankrupt and gives in. Shame on the system that permits this one-sided advantage. Kim is well enough liked and respected that his legal team is working without up-front payment.’”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Edward Weber" for the heads up.]
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