A district court in New Zealand has ruled that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues may be extradited to the U.S. to face copyright infringement and other charges.

His legal team said soon after the order by Judge Nevin Dawson in Auckland that it looked forward to a review of the U.S. request for extradition by a High Court. Megaupload counsel Ira Rothken wrote in a tweet that the decision rendered the New Zealand “ISP criminal copyright safe harbor illusory.”

The case dates back to January 2012, when Dotcom and colleagues and two companies including the file-sharing site Megaupload, were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.

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