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Summary Kim Dotcom was arrested on January 20 and released last week on bail.
In his first interviews since his January arrest in New Zealand, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom says he will prevail in what he says is a political case against him.U.S. authorities are trying to extradite Dotcom on a series of federal charges including racketeering. They say he and colleagues at his file-sharing website facilitated millions of illegal downloads, costing songwriters and moviemakers some half a billion dollars in lost copyright revenue.Dotcom was arrested Jan. 20 and released last week on bail.Dotcom told a reporter from the Herald on Sunday newspaper that federal authorities had cherry-picked emails and other evidence in their 90-page indictment against him in a way that was misleading and malicious.
