Left to right: Bram Van der Kolk, Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Kim Dotcom in court today.
By Kirsty Johnston
Website Megaupload.com, which was shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted materials, is trying to get back online as its founder sits in an Auckland jail.
Police arrested Kim Dotcom, 37, in an early morning swoop yesterday at his $30 million rented mansion in Coatesville, 30km north of Auckland.
Dotcom and three others – Finn Batato, 38, and chief technical officer and co-founder Mathias Ortmann, 40, both from Germany, and Dutch national Bram van der Kolk, 29 – appeared in the North Shore District Court yesterday.