Scenes from “Kimble Goes Monaco,” Schmitz's self-financed documentary of a lavish trip to the Monaco Grand Prix. New Zealand lawyers for Kim Dotcom and associates allege that FBI agents committed an “illegal act” by cloning data from the file-sharing tycoon’s seized computers and FedExing it to the United States. The cloned data was sent overseas just days after a judge decided a court hearing was needed to work out if the FBI agents were allowed to take the material, Dotcom’s lawyer Willy Akel told the High Court of Auckland Wednesday. Akel said the FBI sent material back to the States without the New Zealand police having any say in the matter and that the police force had effectively lost control over it. The US government is accusing Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, of running a criminal conspiracy that made hundreds of millions of dollars by letting users share copyrighted files online.

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FBI Illegally Pirated Kim Dotcom’s Data Out of New Zealand, File-Sharing King Charges