Two Hollywood film studios may have gained more than an extra $1 million a week from paid legal downloads of their movies after last year's shutdown of Kim Dotcom's MegaUpload websites, a new study has found.

The evidence in question is considered so sensitive that lawyers for the Megaupload founder are not even allowed in the court.

A decision to force the United States Government into handing over its evidence against Kim Dotcom in its internet piracy case has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

A review of Government Communications Security Bureau involvement in police investigations initiated as a result of the Kim Dotcom affair has found no further breaches of legislation by the bureau.

The lawyer for internet mogul Kim Dotcom vehemently denied today that requesting the Government's spy agency to hand over its evidence is a delaying tactic.

Vikram Kumar, formally of internetNZ is the new CEO for Kim Dotcom's Mega.

John Key went to meet Hollywood bosses with a briefing from officials saying studios were looking for easier ways to target Kiwi who downloaded illegally.

I'm determined to be first, and thus present: 2013 - the NewZealand political year in review, writes Toby Manhire.(Disclaimer: Here and there I've had to extrapolate.)

The prize for "Media Love Affair of 2012" goes to Kim Dotcom, writes John Drinnan. The German millionaire and unlikely "small guy" enjoyed adoring coverage through 2012.

First impressions of Kim Dotcom's new Mega file storage site.

Tycoon Kim Dotcom's new file-sharing service Mega launched today with great fanfare - and more than 100,000 users signed up in the site's first hour.

MediaWorks has cancelled an advertising campaign for internet millionaire Kim Dotcom's new business, Mega, which is due to be launched on Sunday.

Pat Pilcher checks out Kim Dotcom’s manifesto for ending piracy

Kim Dotcom is challenging the warrants used to seize his fortune in new court documents which accuse the FBI of doubled-crossing his Megaupload company.

Dotcom's extradition might "never occur", says a US music firm challenging delays to a copyright legal case.

Marmageddon was a coup, an insurance company sponsorship of the sacred All Blacks jersey was a near-miss, while the Government was on a hiding to nothing with controversial changes to the education sector.

Claire Trevett writes: "John Key caved in and did something vaguely resembling the Gangnam Dance - prompting one observer to sum it up thus: "I bloody love that we have a Prime Minister who is not afraid to make a tit of himself.""

The Dotcom case is focusing more attention on the GCSB and its association with the Five Eyes electronic spying network, writes Keith Locke.

Whatever you think of the man - like him, loathe him, or just bored to tears by him - Dotcom has been the news motherlode of 2012, writes Toby Manhire.