The flamboyant entrepreneur, who is facing extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. over copyright infringement allegations, plans to launch easy-to-use yet secure communications services. Read more at GigaOM »
Flamboyant entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is marketing his new file-sharing locker as “the privacy company.” Is he for real or are the privacy claims just a cynical cover-up for a new piracy business? Read more »
Efforts to extradite alleged piracy mastermind Kim Dotcom to face US charges may be undermined by apparent unlawful bugging used in his New Zealand arrest – the latest flaw in the high-profile case. Read more »
The surreal global saga pitting the entertainment industry against a technology cult hero has taken a new twist. The judge presiding over the extradition of Kim Dotcom, founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, has stepped down over a controversial comment about US copyright law. Read more at GigaOM »
In a 5,700-word cover story serving a not-so-sympathetic constituency, entertainment trade The Hollywood Reporter reveals Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom to be more of an aspiring tech-media mogul than swaggering international pirate. Friends, associates and attorneys describe the Motion Picture Association of America’s least favorite person. Read more »
[Update: Australian paper The Age reported that U.S. prosecutors have drawn up a secret indictment against Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange… Read more »
Media types are claiming that prosecutors will find it hard to pin copyright charges on Kim Dotcom, the 300-pound executive whose website Me… Read more »
A New Zealand court today delayed its decision over whether to grant bail to the founder of Megaupload after prosecutors argued that Kim Dot… Read more »