In certain countries the prosecution has a legally responsibility to provide copies of the evidence to the defendant's legal team within a given time frame and bring the case to court within a second time frame. Individual copies of the evidence for the various interested parties must be provided by the prosecution to the defense team (defendant, legal counsel, barrister, etc).
In cases such as these with overwhelming amounts of 'evidence', a surprisingly effective defensive legal tactic, is for the defendant to request as many copies of all of the evidence as viably and legally possible.
It is then almost impossible for the prosecution to both copy the vast amount of evidence (imagine pages and pages of server logs) in triplicate, and bring the case to court within the allotted time. The copying alone is unfeasible.
If anything this tactic can be used to force a plea bargain (lesser charge etc).
A lawyer would have to confirm whether this would work in NZ.
Megaupload has 25 petabytes of data, according to the company complaining about having to host it. There was a company at one time who could put 50KB of binary data on a fax page [1]. 25 petabytes / 50 KB =~ 550 trillion sheets of paper. Heck, let's let them double-side it, so it's only 225 trillion sheets of paper.
Even the United States Federal Government would choke on trying to produce that.
In certain countries the prosecution has a legally responsibility to provide copies of the evidence to the defendant's legal team within a given time frame and bring the case to court within a second time frame. Individual copies of the evidence for the various interested parties must be provided by the prosecution to the defense team (defendant, legal counsel, barrister, etc).
In cases such as these with overwhelming amounts of 'evidence', a surprisingly effective defensive legal tactic, is for the defendant to request as many copies of all of the evidence as viably and legally possible.
It is then almost impossible for the prosecution to both copy the vast amount of evidence (imagine pages and pages of server logs) in triplicate, and bring the case to court within the allotted time. The copying alone is unfeasible.
If anything this tactic can be used to force a plea bargain (lesser charge etc).
A lawyer would have to confirm whether this would work in NZ.