Internet entrepreneur to be provided with copies of evidence relevant to US investigation into alleged online piracy.
A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges.
Repeating its decision that warrants used in the raid on Dotcom's home were illegal, the high court ruled that police must provide copies of evidence considered relevant to the US investigation. These include materials forwarded to the FBI.
Any evidence seized in the raid, including computers, hard drives, files, and other materials deemed irrelevant must be returned to Dotcom.
"The police are to review digital data storage devices and return any to the plaintiffs that contain no relevant material," Justice Helen Winkelmann said in a statement. Police, she said, may retain other storage devices but had to "provide a clone of those devices to the plaintiffs".
Source: https://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/31/megaupload-kim-dotcom-access-evidence