Back in March this year, the US government filed a formal request in New Zealand for the extradition of the four founders. The hearing was scheduled for August 20.

Following a "series of legal complications" which include a High Court judge invalidating the warrants for seizing Dotcom's property and funds (a move the US authorities made last month) as well as declaring the FBI shipping cloned hard drive images taken at the raid was unlawful, the date has been ...