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US wins court victory in battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom from New Zealand

By: The Associated Press

Posted: 02/28/2013 10:14 PM | Comments: 0 | Last Modified: 03/1/2013 12:03 AM

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2013 file photo, indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom holds a press conference ahead of the launch of a new file-sharing website called "Mega" at his Coatesville mansion in Auckland, New Zealand. The United States on Friday, Feb. 28, won a court appeal in its battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Dotcom and three of his colleagues from New Zealand. A New Zealand appeals court overturned an earlier ruling that would have allowed Dotcom and his colleagues broad access to evidence in the case against them at the time of their extradition hearing, which is scheduled for August. The appeals court ruled that extensive disclosure would bog down the process and that a summary of the U.S. case would suffice. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Richard Robinson, File) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The U.S. has won a court appeal in its battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom from New Zealand.

A New Zealand appeals court Friday overturned an earlier ruling that would have allowed Dotcom broad access to the evidence against him at the time of his August extradition hearing. The appeals court ruled that extensive disclosure would bog down the process and that a summary of the U.S. case would suffice.

Dotcom founded the file-sharing site Megaupload that the United States shuttered last year. Authorities there accuse him of facilitating copyright fraud on a massive scale. Dotcom says he's innocent and can't be held responsible for those who chose to use the site to illegally download songs or movies.

Dotcom this year launched a new file-sharing site called Mega.

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