Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit 112
c0lo writes "Kim Dotcom alleges, in an 20 min interview with the Australian public television, that Megaupload was offered up by the New Zealand's PM 'on a silver platter' as part of negotiations with Warner Brothers executives for shooting The Hobbit in New Zealand. He promises that he'll substantiate the claims in court. He also says that the extradition case the U.S. government is weak and the reason behind the latest delay in extradition hearing (postponed from August this year to March next year) is an attempt to bleed Dotcom dry of his money. Also interesting, Dotcom says that the latest debacle of the massive scale online online surveillance by U.S. spy agencies has triggered an 'explosion' of interest in mega.co.nz, the 'cloud storage' site with user generated encryption."
Re:Not a surprise (Score:5, Insightful)
Civil rights, Hollywood movie. Most people chose the latter.
Hard to know who to believe here (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Hard to know who to believe here (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Hard to know who to believe here (Score:4, Insightful)
Kim Dotcom's main business seems to be publicity for Kim Dotcom, with the evidence postponed to a future date.
Seems the guy has decided that he wants to fight this out in the court of public opinion. That's his right, especially given some of the public statements the US government has made about him one could even say that they started it.
Re:IRS? WTF? (Score:3, Insightful)
Did you ever hear of wikileaks??? Do you know what they did to the US state dept?
They did to the US state dept what the NSA does to everyone.
Re:Conspiracy theory? (Score:5, Insightful)
"conspiracy theories"
It think the concept of "conspiracy theories" died a few years ago, right about the time when it was confirmed beyond all doubt that our government had/has a torture program, has an assassination program, has secret prisons, has a mass surveillance system on innocent citizens, is actively lying to our allies, is actively lying to us, is actively lying to congress, etc. About the only conspiracy theories that are still on the books are the ones involving Aliens & UFOs, so far.
Re:Hard to know who to believe here (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually, if you're an American (I realize many people here are not) then whenever one of the bad guys is the US government, you do need to support the citizen (whether he's bad or good). Whenever your own government is bad, then it is necessary that they lose, no matter who the opponent and no matter how hard you have to hold your nose.
So, you are in support of the Unabomber, the 9/11 terrorists, every rapist and murderer out there as well as every single criminal ever?
Please explain your funny little theory to the parents of a little girl that was raped and killed at the trial of the guy who did it. That you support him because the government is evil.
if that's what it takes to force the government to obey they law.
You are making the false assumption that that's what it takes. But if you look at history, then the opposite is true: Every single example you've listed has made the US government more powerful and more out of control, not less.