Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. Luxury vehicles are seized from an Auckland mansion as alleged internet pirates are busted by the FBI. The battle for the Republican presidential nomination heats up as mud flies in all directions. And how digital technology killed Kodak. We look back at the century-old company as it calls in the receivers. An FBI investigation into internet piracy has led US authorities to NZ and a mansion north of Auckland. The four men arrested ran megaupload.com, a file-sharing website, but that site's been shut down and the owners face possible extradition to America. Lacey Wilson reports. Crammed into a North Shore District Court dock ` Kim Dotcom on the far right alongside Mathias Ortmann, Finn Batato, and Bram van der Kolk. They're all accused of criminal activity through their file-sharing website megaupload.com They've been arrested on warrants relating to breach of copyright offences in the United States, money laundering and racketeering. Tonight there's just a lone security guard outside Dotcom's Coatesville mansion, but it was a different story early this morning as 76 NZ police officers raided his home on behalf of US authorities. We have seized an excess of $6m worth of top-end motor vehicles and over $10m in cash from several NZ finance companies. The Megaupload founder and his colleagues are accused by the US Department of Justice of generating more than $175m in criminal proceeds and causing more than $0.5b in harm to copyright owners. The site might have been free to join, but it was private. But the FBI says copyright owners didn't know their material was being traded because of that privacy. Megaupload.com is just the latest in a string of file-sharing websites to be charged over copyright laws in the last 12 years, starting with Napster. Kim Dotcom is no stranger to police. He was arrested in Germany on insider trading charges. He and his co-accused were denied bail today and will reappear in court on Monday. Lacey Wilson, ONE News. The captain of the capsized cruise liner off the coast of Italy has been left out in the cold by the ship's owners, who are refusing to provide a defence for him. But one woman's defending the captain, calling him a hero who saved thousands of lives by grounding the ship on the Tuscany coast. The BBC's Matthew Price with this. ENGINE WHIRRS As the wind picked up, a rescue worker stepped out into the void ` down towards the Costa Concordia, which is stable for now. Today another apparently damning conversation emerged ` held 30 minutes into the emergency. A port official asks the ship if there is a problem. (SPEAKS ITALIAN) This Moldovan woman, a former crew member, says the captain tried to save passengers. She was on board and says she saw what he did. (SPEAKS ITALIAN) TRANSLATOR: I've heard in the Russian media that the captain left the ship first or was among the first, but this is not true. As a witness, I can say that I left the deck at 10 to 12, following an order from the captain. With the weather expected to worsen, these are the main priorities. There are fears the ship could slip up to 90m from its current position on the reef. On board, there are nearly 2500 tons of fuel and oil that must be removed. They'll aim to heat it up and pump it out under pressure. Rescuers say they have to make sure there are no survivors left inside the wreck before a salvage operation can begin. The Republican race for the Whitehouse is starting to stumble. First a leading candidate's ex-wife accused him of wanting an open marriage while frontrunner Mitt Romney now has problems of his own. US correspondent Tim Wilson has this. Conservative warrior Newt Gingrich is rising in polls in South Carolina and now threatens Mitt Romney, the man leading the pack. But rather than Mr Romney, he's been attacking the press. I think that the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled. Gingrich's ex-wife has said that he wanted to share her with his mistress. He was asking to have an open marriage, and I refused. He wanted an open marriage? Yeah, that I accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. And you said? No. No. That is not a marriage. His daughters say their father's second wife is lying and the open marriage charge simply isn't true. Rick Perry's campaign has been struggling since this gaffe. It's three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, education, and the, uh` What's the third one, there? Let's see... The Texas governor's hopes to be president bit the dust. I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich for President of the United States. In any other news cycle, Perry's endorsement would have been part of a positive Newt Gingrich story. This wild day on the campaign trail included a bombshell for Mitt Romney. He didn't win Iowa as he'd thought. Guess what. We defeated Mitt Romney in Iowa. A recount handed the state to Rick Santorum, leaving Mitt Romney ducking some hard questions. What he can't dodge is a tougher race on Sunday. Tim Wilson, ONE News, New York. Some Christchurch residents say the new process to fix emergency earthquake repairs is a joke. They say there are big delays and it's only a matter of time before someone's seriously hurt or worse. Joy Reid's been hearing the complaints. This is one of hundreds of hot-water cylinders which have sprung a leak as a result of the latest swarm of earthquakes. And after several days of waiting, it's finally getting repaired. It's just a complete and utter shambles. From January the 1st, instead of calling your own tradesmen to fix any urgent problem and then the tradesmen billing EQC directly, now you ring EQC, then they allocate the case to Fletchers, who prioritise it and organise the tradesmen to do the work. We have an extensive hub network across the city and we have a large contractor base, so it's more efficient for us to be able to give the claims immediately to the hubs and our contractors. It's just a hopeless situation. It's damaging properties, and someone could be killed as a result. The new process has angered property manager Michael McCormick, who's been waiting days for half a dozen rental properties to receive urgent attention, and there's still no sign of the tradesmen. When you have an emergency, it's got to be sorted today. It's like a 111 call where no one answers the phone or they do answer it, but the ambulance takes two weeks to get there. Fletchers say that since December, they've carried out or are working on 3000 emergency repairs and they've got 600 to go. We are receiving claims currently at the rate similar to the June aftershocks, but we are processing and completing them three times faster. Given it's been the holiday season, they say everyone's done their best. I'll always expect faster, but I don't think it's unreasonable what's being delivered at the moment. And EQC are expecting more emergency claims to be lodged as people return from their holidays. Joy Reid, ONE News. It's likely Ports of Auckland will push ahead with mass redundancies as it aims to end a long-running row with the Maritime Union. Management and union bosses have met to discuss the contracting out of 330 jobs. While the port says a final decision hasn't been made, the union says its actions suggest otherwise. They've said it is not definitive, but you'd have to be a bit suspicious if it wasn't. They've spent so much time on it, energy and money. And they've worked out the cost of making 330 people redundant. Ports of Auckland says jobs would be contracted out under the proposal, but it would retain full control of its land and other assets. A land and sea search continues this evening for a boy (15) missing off Auckland's West Coast. The boy was caught in a rip at O'Neill's Bay yesterday, an unpatrolled beach described by lifeguards as extremely dangerous. It's believed he was helping somebody else when he got into trouble in the water. As far as we know, he didn't come to O'Neill's with the intention of swimming. He was exploring the Bethells area with his brother. O'Neill's is not recommended for swimming. It's only sort of for expert surfers, really. So far this year there have been 14 drownings, one fewer than this time last year. In an attempt to fill the venue, Big Day Out organisers let fans in for free for two hours this evening. The festival has been NZ's premier music event for 18 years, but tonight's show will be its last. Here's entertainment reporter Joanna Hunkin. It wasn't what fans expected ` arriving at the Big Day Out to be greeted by empty stands. This traditional bottleneck was free flowing, and the Boiler Room, once a steaming den of misbehaviour... is now a lone sound stage in a car park. It's a far cry from these glory days, when heaving crowds of more than 40,000 were the norm. ROCK MUSIC PLAYS Organisers announced a downsize in November, halving the number of stages and dropping headline act Kanye West. They claimed it would be a return to the magic of the early days, but today fans weren't buying it. The line-up has gone downhill a little bit, and the prices have definitely peaked. It's turned out to a bit of a bogan, hip hop, electro fest. The event didn't listen to the crowd. And that's key to succeeding in an increasingly competitive live music market. The whole festival scene has grown here quite a lot. But they can't all survive. The box office is the great moderator. At the end of the day, it's the punter that makes up their mind. All we can do is put in front of them what we think is going to be attractive. For many fans, the Big Day Out wasn't looking pretty. Not for the price and the artists that are playing today. Just cos of the line-up, I wouldn't have come. I mean, I'm coming cos we got free tickets in a corporate box. Many will mourn the loss of the event, often considered a rite of passage for Kiwi teens. This is why I'm going out with a bang today, because it is the last one. I'm going to be shedding a few tears tonight. A limp ending for a once mighty event. Joanna Hunkin, ONE News. Just ahead ` there's sunshine for almost everyone. We take you into the Syrian town at the centre of the country's bid for freedom. And a Kodak moment the company would like to forget. We look back at the impact the former giant has made. It's now 10 months since demonstrators in the Syrian city of Deraa sparked off an uprising against president Bashar al-Assad. Since then, the protests have become widespread and thousands have been killed. The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen gained rare access into Deraa. The faces of some people in his report have been obscured to protect their identity. On the streets, the people at this stall were well aware of the cameras and the government's security escort with us. (SPEAKS IN OWN LANGUAGE) No problems here, said the owner. Syria is in its worst crisis since independence since 1946. Deraa is still a troubled town almost a year after the arrest and torture of children led to the first big protests against President Assad. They were after prayers at the Omari mosque. It's a symbol of the uprising, which is why the army is in control here now. A group of men called to us when they saw us and said, 'Come up here. Come and talk to us.' But then I think they also saw we were with a group of secret policemen. They've disappeared. But then a man reappeared further up, gesturing in full view, of a position that locals said had been used by regime snipers. Our escorts stayed back so they gained confidence. (SPEAKS ARABIC) 'The army, the secret police, they're killing us. This is a street full of martyrs.' (CONTINUES TO SPEAK ARABIC) 'Come see for yourself.' He's saying that there are security men; there are army all over the place. ALL SPEAK ARABIC 'The Assad gangs are killing people,' he said. 'They'll break into our houses and arrest us after you've gone.' They said 18 had been killed in their street in 10 months of the uprising. That's a portrait of her 13-year-old brother who, they said, had been shot by the security forces. Here and across the country, neither side has been beaten, and for now, neither can win. Unless there's a political deal, Syria will continue its slide into civil war. A month-long mandate for Arab League peace monitors has expired, and a report to Arab leaders is expected early next week. The bill for Britain's phone-hacking scandal is rising, as News International group newspapers settle out of court with celebrities, MPs and crime victims whose privacy it invaded. Rupert Murdoch wrote out cheques worth $1.3m in one day alone. 18 people have accepted out-of-court settlements so far, including actor Jude Law who received over a quarter of a million dollars. News International apologised in a London court today, but the case is far from over. Up to 800 victims could still claim compensation. There's been another shark attack in australia, the second in two days. A surfer was lucky to survive when he was attacked off the NSW coast, and last night a man snorkelling in Western Australia was bitten on the arm. Here's Australia correspondent Steve Marshall. Back on dry land after a near-death dip. I turned around, and boom, there he was. David Pickering was leading a snorkelling group off the Western Australia north coast when he was mauled by a 3m tiger shark. The 26-year-old suffered serious damage to his right arm,... I'm glad I put my arm up, or he would have just gone... (CHUCKLES) ...and then had to swim 100m to shore. The worst thing was that I couldn't see if he was coming back for seconds. Surfer Glen Folkard knows the feeling. He was a dark shadow in the end of the blood trail, so he was coming to have a second go. He was surfing near Newcastle when he was dragged from his board, possibly by a great white. A big bite mark in that section there. The 44-year-old was helped to shore by fellow surfers. The number of shark attacks in Australia has risen from around six a year between 1990 and 2000 to about 15 a year over the past decade. However, experts say that's because of an increase in the number of people using the water and not an increase in the shark population. On average, fewer than two people a year are killed by sharks in Australian waters. Steve Marshall, ONE News. A proposal for a NZ waka to be included in a spectacular London River tribute for the Queen's diamond jubilee has been turned down. Organisers have vetoed plans for the waka, saying it's simply too dangerous to have Te Hono Ki Aotearoa Waka in the water. More than a thousand vessels will sail up the Thames on the 3rd of June. NZ will be represented by three other vessels, including one flying the NZ flag. It was the byword for unforgettable moments ` a Kodak moment. But now the company has declared bankruptcy ` something it wishes it could forget. Channel Nine's Peter Harvey with this. JAUNTY MUSIC For most of us, Kodak was part of our lives. It recorded the 20th century. Paul Simons sung about it. # I love to take photographs, so don't take my Kodachrome away. # From its very beginning, Kodak's name was a byword for those memories you wanted to keep forever ` 'the Kodak moment'. In 1900, Kodak invented the first easily used and affordable camera ` the Brownie Box. In 1935, it invented colour film for Hollywood and for the masses. In 1975, the first digital camera. By the following year, Kodak controlled 90% of the world's film market. Television's tale of the advertising industry turned one Kodak invention into legend. It's not called the Wheel. It's called the Carousel. All of that's history now. Kodak was run over by the 'Digital Express'. Kodak didn't innovate. They had a very good film business. They were processing people's photos and selling film-based cameras. But the world changed, and technology moved forward. People wanted to upload photos to Facebook and email them from smartphones and tablets to their friends. More than anything, that's the moment that Kodak missed. To sport now. Most of the top seeds at the Australian Open have managed to breeze through today's matches and into the next round. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are on track to meet in the semi-final after beating their opponents Ivo Karlovic and Lukas Lacko. And that long forehand brings up the match point for the number two seed. But in the prime-time evening spot was much-hyped local teenager Bernard Tomic up against 13th seed Alex Dolgopolov. Dolgopolov won the first set 6-4, but Tomic picked up in the second. Boy, there were some shots in that rally. This is one of the best matches, if not the best match, we've seen so far at the championships. And a short time ago Tomic won the second set 7-6. Just ahead, a damp start for some, but the sun will come out. I'll tell you where. And the stage show with the very Kiwi name. We're with the cast of Munted ` a very honest tale. And now to the weather. For tomorrow, a weak ridge of high pressure covers northern and central parts. However, isobars tighten to the south as a front bringing a cold change and showers makes landfall tomorrow night. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz Finally tonight, a local tale told with Kiwi honesty. That's how a stage show that gives audiences a unique look at Christchurch's February quake is being described. Rebecca Edwards went along for a look. I don't believe` I don't believe this is happening. This is big time. RUBBLE RATTLES, PEOPLE CLAMOUR And it was big time. The February 22nd earthquake killed 181 people and brought Christchurch to its knees. Now a new play, Munted, is telling the stories of everyday people living through the disaster. People have been so incredibly open and generous with stories. It's been amazing. The idea for the show was born on the very day of the quake when writer and Cantabrian Victoria Abbott was in Paris. I couldn't get hold of my family, so I spent the seven or eight hours while I was waiting to get in touch with my whole family doing something, which was writing this show, writing the concept out for the show. A concept which also includes the stories of reporters who covered the event. These people, they're human, they have feelings. They feel exactly like everyone else does. But a month out from the first anniversary is this coming too soon? The creators think not, hoping the show will open up conversations and better connect communities. Like it, love it, hate it, you know. I would love people to come along and talk about it. That's what I would love. With 5% of the ticket sales going back to the Christchurch community, the play opens at Wellington's Bats Theatre on Tuesday. Rebecca Edwards, ONE News. That's it from us here on Tonight. You can stay up to date by logging on to our website at tvnz.co.nz Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Glenna Casalme and Hugo Snell. 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