The defence in the Kim Dotcom extradition case carefully explains why the cases of copyright infringement at issue are civil, not criminal matters, why there is a need for “safe harbour” provisions for ISPs (and services like Megaupload), and warns against the US Justice Department trying to shop around NZ law to find more criminal charges to hit him with.

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