It's been more than two-and-a-half years since he was charged, so it's easy to forget that the US still sees Kim Dotcom as an Internet fugitive.

The US Department of Justice still hopes to extradite him from New Zealand and bring him to trial on criminal copyright charges for inducing piracy through actions he undertook at his former company, Megaupload. Dotcom is still fighting to stay out of the US, and an extradition trial is now scheduled for February 2015.

Now, Dotcom has won an interim victory—thanks to a ruling from the New Zealand Court of Appeal, he's finally going to get some of the data that was seized from his computers and other devices when his house was raided in January 2012.

It's an important win for Dotcom, who until now has been in the position of having to construct a legal defense without access to his own company's data. Now, he'll get back "clones" of the devices seized, which include laptops, computers, portable hard drives, flash storage devices, and servers, according to the New Zealand Herald. As a condition of getting back the data, he'll have to provide New Zealand investigators with passwords so they can view it.

"The passwords can only be given to two New Zealand police officers, sworn to not provide the information to anyone else, to prevent the U.S. from benefiting from the illegally removed data and further violating Dotcom’s privacy," Dotcom's lawyer Ira Rothken told Bloomberg News.

The appeals court ruling specifically states the encryption codes will not be disclosed "to any other person or any other party, and in particular to any representative of the Government of the United States of America."

Megaupload has been shuttered since the 2012 raid, and its US-based servers are being held by the government. On the one-year anniversary of the raid on his mansion, Dotcom launched a new cloud storage service, Mega.