Kim Dotcom, the founder of the Megaupload.com file sharing website, remains in jail in New Zeeland.

A judge decided that Kim Dotcom has to remain in jail, canceling the request of conditional release.

The Government, who is working with the American authorities to have Dotcom extradited, considers that he might take advantage of released on bail to disappear. Americans want to extradite Dotcom and his partners, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bran Van Der Kolk. Dotcom was arrested on Friday, January 20, and Megaupload.com is considered to be “One of the most important cases of copyright violations ever prosecuted”.

Dotcom was arrested in his 24 million dollars mansion. He owns 18 luxury cars, including a Phantom Rolls Royce and a 1959 Cadillac.

The Mega business brought Kim Dotcom 175 million dollars and made 500 million dollars in damages. According to DOJ, Megaupload has 150 million users and a total of 50 million unique visitors / day, which is 4% of the total internet traffic.