Software : Kim Dotcom's extradition case delayed

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Kim Dotcom's extradition case delayed Posted: A New Zealand court judge has postponed the extradition hearing of Megaupload employees, including founder Kim Dotcom till March 2013. The hearing against Megaupload for copyright infringement and fraud had been scheduled to start on August 6 for three weeks. The US filed a formal request for the extradition of Dotcom and three other Megaupload staff in March but has faced obstacles in New Zealand's courts. Legal hurdles include a New Zealand High Court judge invalidating the warrants used for seizing property in the original raid in January. The judge has also ruled that the shipping of cloned hard drives by the FBI was unlawful because the warrants used to seize the property were too general. Kim tweets under house arrest Dotcom is currently under house arrest at his Auckland home, but he began tweeting his thoughts after a ban preventing internet access was lifted in April. "Extradition hearing delayed till March. Dirty delay tactics by the US. They destroyed my business. Took all my assets. Time does the rest," he tweeted. Another tweet was addressed to John Key, New Zealand's prime minister: "The NZ government is refusing a NZ resident due process and a fair defense. Shame on you John Key for allowing this to happen. Shame on you." Ira Rothken, Dotcom's American lawyer fighting the case, agreed with the tweets. Rothken told New Zealand radio station Radio NZ: "How is one supposed to go ahead and defend, in a fair manner, against ambiguous and vague claims of secondary copyright infringement when they (the courts) can't see any evidence at all?" The lawyer added that delay "is very frustrating", pointing out that till the case is resolved, Dotcom's assets would remain frozen.

Dutch court shuts down Wordpress based Pirate Bay proxy Posted: An anti-censorship Wordpress plugin which also acts as a proxy server for the Pirate Bay has been shut down following a court order on Friday. RePress, a plugin developed by Dutch hosting company Greenhost, allowed any Wordpress blog to function as a proxy. It proved handy for users in countries where ISPs had blocked the torrent website, including the UK and the Netherlands, according to TorrentFreak.com Anti-piracy vs anti-censorship Last week, anti-piracy group BREIN demanded that Greenhost take the proxy offline. However, the hosting company refused, saying RePress unblocked a range of sites and was not designed to specifically unlock The Pirate Bay. It said it would only comply if presented with a court order. On July 6, the Court of The Hague issued an ex-parte injunction and gave Greenhost six hours to take down all the proxies through which the public can access The Pirate Bay. The company faced a 1,000 euro fine per day if it did not comply. "This plugin allows people who live in dictatorships such as China or Iran to still access the open Internet. This is vital in a society that is increasingly dependent on digital resources," wrote Greenhost director Sacha van Geffen in his response to BREIN. Response awaited RePress posted on its website on Friday saying the court decision has been made ex-parte, without rebuttal from the hosting provider or the proxy service. Greenhost says it is amazed that the BREIN foundation's request for a specific copyright infringement to designate the site was passed. The company promised to issue a substantive response, and consider whether there are legal steps to be taken. The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde took to Twitter to lambast the ruling. Among the colourful language in his tweet he also wrote: "The UN just signed papers against this." So it looks like this Pirate Bay proxy saga is going to run and run.

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