A US district judge has denied Megaupload’s request to dismiss a criminal indictment, by arguing that the controversial website wasn't a US company.

Kim Dotcom and co’s lawyers argued that because their company had no US address, it could not be served a criminal summons in relation to their pirate file-hosting business.

But the judge has rejected that argument, saying that the lack of a US address under criminal law "does not require a result so extreme as dismissal" of ...