Kim Dotcom can be extradited: NZ court

NEW Zealand’s High Court ruled yesterday that Kim Dotcom was eligible for extradition to the United States over online piracy allegations linked to his now-defunct Megaupload web empire. But defence lawyers vowed to appeal the decision and maintain the long-running battle to stop Dotcom being sent for trial in the US. “We are far from defeated,” Dotcom’s barrister Ron Mansfield said in a statement. Dotcom himself lashed out at the judgement on Twitter, arguing he had proved his central legal point that copyright is not an extraditable offence. “It’s a political case. It’s a political judgement,” he tweeted. “I told you I can’t be extradited for copyright and I was right. What is this? Sharia law?”.