The Attorney-General's appeal to send Kim Dotcom's computers and other devices to the US continued in the Court of Appeal today, with the Crown arguing for cloned devices and their passwords to be released to the US.
Last December, the court ruled the search warrants executed in the high profile 2012 raid on the internet entrepreneur were valid, although Chief Justice Sian Elias issued a dissenting view.
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Appearing in the Court of Appeal before Justices Tony Randerson, Lynton Stevens and Douglas White today, Merran Cooke from the Crown Law Office sought to quash restrictions on sending the devices to the US.
Dotcom and his co-accused Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk tried to have the warrants ruled invalid as they attempt to head off the US Federal government's bid to extradite them to the US, where they face charges of conspiracy to operate websites used to illegally distribute copyrighted material.