{"id":2383,"date":"2012-06-28T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jun\/28\/megaupload-case-gathers-steam-warrants-deemed-invalid\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:59:30","slug":"megaupload-case-gathers-steam-as-warrants-deemed-invalid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/megaupload-case-gathers-steam-as-warrants-deemed-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"Megaupload case gathers steam as warrants deemed invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US case against Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is looking shakier by the day, following news that warrants used to raid his New Zealand home were invalid.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday New Zealand High Court Judge Justice Helen Winkelmann ruled that the warrants used in January &ldquo;did not adequately describe the offences to which they related&rdquo;. Many of Dotcom&rsquo;s substantial assets were frozen, and property seized including a 20 luxury vehicles, works of art and computers.<\/p>\n<p>Moves by the FBI to copy data from Dotcom&#8217;s computer and take it offshore were also unlawful, she said.<\/p>\n<p>In January Dotcom was cut out of a safe room in his $30m Aukland mansion by SWAT officers and arrested along with four others. Now under house arrest, he was initially judged a flight risk and denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>Megaupload was unceremoniously executed, provoking outrage from millions of users who had legitimately used the service to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US case against Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is looking shakier by the day, following news that warrants used to raid his New Zealand home were invalid.<br \/>\nOn Thursday New Zealand High Court Judge Justice Helen Winkelmann ruled that the warrants used&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}