iiNet ruling may help Kim Dotcom

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"At its heart, Megaupload is about the responsibility of an online service provider for its users' activity and that was exactly the core issue in the iiNet trial," he said. While evidence in the two cases as to whether the companies encouraged piracy was not the same, Dotcom's was a criminal prosecution, so the burden of proof needed to be stronger, he said.
US website TorrentFreak reported that Megaupload was preparing a "multibillion-dollar" sharemarket listing before it was shut down in January – a fresh revelation that suggests Dotcom believed he was operating legitimately, and not partaking in a massive "criminal conspiracy" as alleged by the FBI and New Zealand police.

Dotcom told TorrentFreak he had talked with some of the "Big Four" accounting firms and with large international banks interested in underwriting the public offer. 

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