The only person convicted of the Megaupload copyright charges over which Kim Dotcom is facing extradition has walked free from prison in the United States - but has a $266 million debt hanging over his head.
Andrus Nomm was sentenced to a federal prison in the US in February this year after cutting a plea bargain deal with the FBI over his role in the Megaupload operation.
Dotcom and three others arrested in New Zealand in 2012 are waiting to discover the outcome of an extradition hearing which could lead to them facing US courts over allegations of criminal copyright violation. The charges carry sentences stretching into decades.
Documents from the court case show most of the charges faced by other defendants were dropped in Nomm's case.