MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom could be headed back to jail.
Authorities in New Zealand are expected to appeal last week's decision to release DotCom on bail, CNET reports, citing TVNZ.
The U.S. government alleges that DotCom was operating MegaUpload as one of the Web's biggest criminal copyright operations and indicted him last month. He was arrested on January 19 and since then has remained in police custody.
The MegaUpload piracy case will see at least its fourth hearing in a month and we haven't even finalized the issue of bail. Not only that, but some of the papers down there are reporting the extradition hearing to see if DotCom will be handed over to U.S. officials for trial won't get under way until August.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, which issued the indictment against DotCom (born Kim Schmitz) and six others connected to MegaUpload, could not be reached for comment.
MegaUpload was used by millions across the globe to store and share pirated media. DotCom said the service was used mainly to store legitimate content. The U.S. government, however, alleged recently that a search of the company's servers showed more than 90 percent of those signed up at MegaUpload never stored files there.
