The U.S. has won a court appeal inits battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom from New Zealand.
A New Zealand appeals court Friday overturned an earlierruling that would have allowed Dotcom broad access to the evidence against himat the time of his August extradition hearing. The appeals court ruled thatextensive 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 theUnited States shuttered last year. Authorities there accuse him of facilitatingcopyright fraud on a massive scale. Dotcom says he's innocent and can't be heldresponsible for those who chose to use the site to illegally download songs ormovies.
Dotcom this year launched a new file-sharingsite called Mega.