After closing down his webdesign company www.pixelhood.com (2001 - 2005) based in Slovakia, Július joined Kim Schmitz in 2006 as a Graphic Director of the Megaupload.com and other Mega-affiliated cyberlocker sites.
O'Grady is the presiding judge in the current extradition proceedings against Kim Dotcom relating to the Megaupload file storage service.
Dotcom and three other Megaupload executives were arrested in a leased $30 million luxury mansion near Auckland on Friday January 20, 2012.