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"Megaupload&amp;#039;s defence must be granted access to the US authorities&amp;#039; evidence against the filesharing website, a court has ruled. The prosecution wishes to extradite the site&amp;#039;s New Zealand-based organisers so they can stand trial in America for alleged copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering and other offences. New Zealand District Court judge David Harvey has now declared that Megaupload&amp;#039;s lawyers must be allowed to read over the evidence against their clients to assure a fair hearing. Much of the evidence against co-founder Kim Dotcom and his associates was taken from the hard drives of computer equipment seized from his home when the operation was shut down in January this year. Harvey ordered the prosecution to disclose the information by June 19 so that the court can make an informed ruling on whether Megaupload and its organisers were in violation of copyright laws. The judge also ruled that Dotcom is no longer considered a flight risk, and thus should no longer be required to wear an electronic tag, Ars Technica reports. Dotcom is believed to have returned home to his mansion, which he was forced to vacate because it was not suitable for the electronic monitoring system he was forced to wear. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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