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Website founder has mansion raided

Posted at 6:14 PM, Aug 08, 2012
and last updated 2012-08-08 18:14:05-04

(WTVR) — Kim Dotcom, the founder of media sharing website “MegaUpload” had his mansion raided by police in New Zealand.

The FBI claims that the website had made at least $175 million dollars by copying and distributing copyrighted content since 2005.

Now Dotcom is in the middle of a United States piracy and fraud investigation.
A New Zealand court will hear an application from the U.S. to extradite Dotcom on internet piracy charges