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Why are they paying indefinitely for something they can pay off given a long-enough period. Anyone who is leasing is doing themselves a huge disservice. It'd be like leasing your low-flo toilet.
Extradition treaties do still hold some meaning. If Kim Dotcom had fled to a country that doesn't hold extradition with the US, there would have been nothing they could do.