The six-week hearing opened in Auckland this week, nine months after a lower court ruled Kim Dotcom could be sent to the United States to face copyright infringement and money-laundering charges over the filesharing website Megaupload. Dotcom was arranging for a videographer to start recording the proceedings from tomorrow, the lawyer added. The judge ordered the stream to be taken down at the end of the hearing. New Zealand government prosecutors, who are representing the United States, had argued against the live streaming. Legal experts believe the live streaming of an entire hearing will be a first in New Zealand, although domestic media sometimes film brief snatches of courtroom argument.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 30, 2016 07:07 UTC