The absolute mess surrounding the prosecution of Kim Dotcom just got a little messier, with courts ruling that the former Megaupload boss can sue local spy agencies for illegally monitoring his communications. Read More >>

Troubled internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom wants to help install a new undersea cable linking the US and his adopted country of New Zealand, which would be paid for in part by his new piracy venture Me.ga -- and could eventually subsidise broadband for New Zealanders. Read More >>

Authorities in New Zealand are doing everything they possibly can to cash-in on the publicity the region's about to get thanks to providing the backdrop to Peter Jackson's latest Tolkien production, going so far as minting a range of gold and silver coins starring characters from the series. Read More >>

You know that evil man who helped facilitate piracy across the globe? He's just earned himself a grovelling apology from the prime minister of New Zealand, over the continued mess that is his prosecution for illegal file sharing. Read More >>

The case of Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom gets odder by the day, with the latest official documents revealing that the police simply didn't know, or didn't bother checking, if Kim Dotcom was a New Zealand citizen or not. Read More >>

As more details leak out about the investigation on Kim Dotcom, the more embarrassing it gets for government officials. After thinking Dotcom had a doomsday device, it's now known that government spies illegally bugged Dotcom at the behest of the US government. Read More >>

The US versus MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom case has been raging for months, but now we can see how it all started. Watch from on-board cameras as the police helicopter swoops in complete with commentary from foot soldiers, armed with assault rifles, shouting out over their radios as it happened. Read More >>

If you're a YouTube connoisseur, you've probably already seen a train plow through snow before. But that's because a giganto snow plow is attached to the front of the locomotive—those trains were meant to kill and plow snow. This train? It's just a regular train. And it's freaking badass. Read More >>

Love it or hate it, Marmite is an iconic British staple. Apparently the Kiwis love it too. Unfortunately the factory that produces it in New Zealand had to be shutdown because of an Earthquake, causing the whole country to quickly run dry. Now yeast extract-starved Kiwis are forking out a colossal £1,800 each online. That’s one expensive tub of Marmite. Read More >>

Kim Dotcom has been refused an appeal to be freed on bail by a New Zealand court, as its opinion that he is a "flight risk" still hasn't changed. Read More >>

We reviewed Facebook Timeline, the awesomely personal, beautifully designed new profile, in September. September. Facebook said it'd be open to everyone soon after. Clearly, that hasn't happened — but the wait is over! If you live in New Zealand. What? Read More >>