Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web Page #7

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that went through my connection.

[man] During

the high court hearings,

Grant Wormed

was being cross examined,

and he was being asked

about his notebook,

and he looked extremely awkward.

On the 14th of December, 2011,

was there a further meeting

that you attended

to plan this operation

where there was

a range of people there?

Someone from

the Justice Department, was it?

[Grant] Yes.

[Paul] And was there

another group of people

represented as well

at the meeting?

[Grant] Yes, there was.

What field of activity

were they involved with?

They worked for the government.

Right.

Are you not able to

tell us who they were?

I'd rather not.

[Paul] Reason?

Just because of the nature

of the organization.

[indistinct murmuring]

[Fisher]

It was clear that something

had gone horribly,

horribly awry.

The intelligence agencies

had somehow become involved

in the Megaupload case.

The GCSB, the Government

Communication Security Bureau,

New Zealand's equivalent to

the National Security Agency,

was spying on Dotcom.

It's also a part of

the what's called

the Five Eyes arrangement.

The five eyes between them

spy on the world.

The power that they have

is immense.

[Glenn] Once Kim Dotcom

was in New Zealand,

the U.S. began exploiting

the relationship that they had

with the GCSB

and the New Zealand Government

to ensure that

getting Kim Dotcom

became one of

their principal priorities

to the point where they engaged

in illegal surveillance

to do so.

The GCSB is controlled by

quite specific legislation

that says

you're not allowed to spy

on New Zealand residents

or citizens.

[Dotcom] There's something I'd really like

to point out that is important for me.

When they tapped into my iPhone.

Because if that happens to you,

it alters the way

you think completely.

You realize that it wasn't

just my emails that they read.

They were there when

I was private with my wife.

They were right there.

They have no business

doing that, to anybody, at all.

[Sean] I find that more than

a little bit disturbing.

[bleating]

Is that a way the government

is supposed to act

with communications monitoring?

Are you supposed to be

turning the antennas

that are meant to protect your

country from outside threats

back on yourself

for the prosecution

of what I'm not even sure

in New Zealand

is necessarily a criminal act?

[man] Tonight,

the Kim Dotcom affair

is leaving John Key's government

increasingly red-faced.

[woman] The boss of the Intelligence

Bureau, Prime Minister John Key,

has ordered a probe into illegal

bugging of the Internet millionaire.

Of course, I apologize

to Mr. Dotcom.

I apologize to New Zealanders

because every New Zealander

that sits within

the category of

holding a permanent residency

or a New Zealand citizen is entitled

to be protected from the law.

This is really a matter of

mistake and human error,

not one of a great conspiracy.

[Dotcom] I wish you

A Mega Christmas

I wish you A Mega Christmas

I wish you A Mega Christmas

From Santa Dotcom

Shutting down the Internet.

[distorted male voice] Truth...

integrity...

knowledge...

independence.

[helicopter engine running]

[officer] This is a crime

scene, an illegal gathering.

- [sirens wailing]

- You are all being detained.

Nobody move.

The four Megaupload accused

did a remarkable thing

in the year after

they were arrested.

They built

a business called Mega.

[Dotcom] It is

the launch of Mega.

- [audience applauding]

- You are all upgraded.

[Dotcom laughing]

[Fisher] Dotcom says that

he was motivated

by a desire to create

an encrypted cloud storage site

so that nobody could be spied on

in the way that

he had been spied on.

The U.S. government

is investing billions

into massive spy-clouds

to capture all your data

and communication.

By using Mega,

you say no to governments

that want to spy on you.

[Fisher]

Lord knows what's on there.

It could be copyrighted files.

It could be ISIS planning documents.

It could be child porn.

It could be

whatever it might be.

They've built it so that

nobody can see inside.

[Dotcom] That, by the way, is also what's

going to beat the surveillance state.

I will be one person

that will be remembered

as somebody who has fought

mass surveillance

with technology that gives you

your freedom back.

[woman] The innermost workings

of our top spy agency

have been exposed

in a damning report.

Police have found

the GCSB breaks a law

by spying on Kim Dotcom

and 85 other New Zealanders.

[woman] Prime Minister Key's

solution to the debacle

is to change the law,

giving more power

to our top intelligence agency.

If passed, the law

will permit the GCSB

to now spy on

all New Zealand citizens.

[people shouting] Kill the bill.

[crowd chanting]

Kill the bill...

Thank you all for coming today.

[murmuring]

The U.S. government is the most

power-hungry government out there,

and GCSB is one of the puppets

on the strings of

the U.S. government,

and the biggest puppet

of them all is John Key,

your Prime Minister...

[crowd cheering]

And I will never settle my case.

I will fight until

we know the truth,

until we know

every single detail.

[crowd cheering]

[man] There were fireworks

today at Parliament

as the Prime Minister John Key

went head to head with Kim Dotcom.

The Internet tycoon was

making a public submission

on the proposed changes

to the country's spy laws.

[man] You feel that the...

or do you know or believe

that the Prime Minister

was aware

of what you were doing

before the raid took place?

He knew about me

before the raid.

I know about that.

[Prime Minister Key]

I didn't, no.

[camera shutters clicking]

You know I know.

I know you don't know.

I know you don't know,

actually, but that's fine.

Why are you turning red,

Prime Minister?

I'm not. Why are you sweating?

- [Dotcom] It's hot.

- Oh, OK.

- [people laughing]

- I have a scarf.

The question was if the Prime Minister

knew about me before the raid,

and answer to that is yes.

[camera shutters clicking]

They gave me residency

in New Zealand

for the purpose of extradition.

Warner Brothers was

already in talks

with the New Zealand government

to shoot the Hobbit films here,

and we're talking about you know,

triple digit million dollar budgets,

lots of opportunity

for New Zealand.

So the Prime Minister has seen this

as a double strike opportunity.

Number one, we can make

these Hollywood studios happy

so they will shoot

more movies here,

and on top of that,

we can please the White House,

because on the highest levels,

they wanted me shut down.

[Bryce] Certainly,

there's a lot of evidence

that suggests that that

conspiracy theory is true.

He was allowed to stay

in the country

despite having a criminal past

which would normally preclude

him from getting residency.

[camera shutters clicking]

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