If you’ve been following his adventures, then you’ll know that Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz in Germany) is currently out on bail, but the United States is looking to have him extradited from New Zealand to face charges related to the distribution of copyright-protected content like movies and music. Dotcom earn over $100 million from Megaupload over the years.

Things aren’t exactly looking all that hot for Kim. Police raided his Auckland mansion earlier this year and the New Zealand high court has ruled that his online operation was illegal. As it stands, Dotcom is facing an extradition hearing in March. In the meantime, he’s apparently working with Pacific Fibre (a New Zealand company) to build up enough money to build a fiber optic web cable across the Pacific to the United States.

This would double the available bandwidth for Kiwis, but it would cost 200 million GBP to build. Kim hopes to supply broadband for free to domestic users, charging businesses and government users. The initial capital, he hopes, would come from the proceeds of his lawsuits against the US government and film studios for their “unlawful and political destruction” of Megaupload.

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There are about 5 billion people in the world who don’t have internet access. Charity group A Human Right believes that access to information is a fundamental human right – and wants to offer free internet to everyone by buying a satellite.

A Human Right decided to purchase a satellite following the uprising against Mubarak in Egypt, when the government ordered internet service providers to disconnect from the internet. The group is looking into purchasing the TerreStar-1 satellite (used by AT&T for the Terrestar Genius Satellite Phone). Terrestar-1 is the largest commercial telecommunications satellite in space.

They estimated the full project will cost $245 million. As of press time, A Human Right has managed to raise $53,996. TerreStar has not actually placed the satellite for sale, and is currently restructuring. This is not the group’s only option, according to A Human Right’s blog, several satellite owners have offered the use of their satellites to support the group, and they’re in the process of negotiating.  The end result will be free Internet for the world.

[The Raw Story via BuyThisSatellite.org, A Human Right]

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