Some of the NZ Herald's latest offerings, 5:30 AM Thursday Jul 5, 2012 (NZ Time):
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FBI agents posed as customers of the file-sharing site Megaupload while investigating Kim Dotcom, says his legal team.
They are also believed to have intercepted phone and Skype conversations, the High Court at Auckland was told by Paul Davison, QC.
The result of those investigations should be among evidence made available to Dotcom and his three co-accused, Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk to prepare for the extradition hearing in August on criminal copyright violation and related charges. The details were aired during a judicial review hearing into an order for the United States to produce evidence against the accused.
............................ Much of the evidence is held in the US after the FBI seized computer servers holding vast volumes of information. There is also evidence seized in New Zealand, which is now being argued before the court after the search warrants used to take it were ruled invalid.
Crown lawyer John Pike said the disclosure ordered by the District Court was of a magnitude not found in similar cases. He said the current order captured 22 million emails and hundreds of thousands of documents.
He said extradition should be limited to the "record of case" - the document produced at the extradition hearing which had an assurance from the prosecuting state it was "a proper and tryable case".
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