{"id":123765,"date":"2014-06-10T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=123765"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:02:48","slug":"victim-us-hollywood-cronies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/victim-us-hollywood-cronies\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of the US and Its Hollywood Cronies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Megaupload founder in bid to prove US authorities aided by New Zealand illegally targeted him at behest of Hollywood studios<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kim Dotcom\u00a0is offering a $5m (\u00a33m) &#8220;bounty&#8221; to whistleblowers for information to help fight an online piracy case brought by the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Megaupload founder, who is resisting extradition from\u00a0New Zealand, said he had to resort to offering the money because the deck was stacked against him in one of the largest copyright infringement cases ever brought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My case is unfair,&#8221; the German national\u00a0tweeted. &#8220;I was declined discovery, I didn&#8217;t get my own data back, I need whistleblowers I am offering USD $5M.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dotcom, whose Megaupload empire was shut down in January 2012, has long argued that US authorities, aided by close ally New Zealand, illegally targeted him at the behest of Hollywood studios.<\/p>\n<p>He told\u00a0technology news website TorrentFreak.com\u00a0that the multimillion dollar offer was aimed at helping him prove that allegation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/jun\/09\/kim-dotcom-megaupload-online-piracy\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megaupload founder in bid to prove US authorities aided by New Zealand illegally targeted him at behest of Hollywood studios Kim Dotcom\u00a0is offering a $5m (\u00a33m) &#8220;bounty&#8221; to whistleblowers for information to help fight an online piracy case brought by the US. The Megaupload founder, who is resisting extradition from\u00a0New Zealand, said he had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}