Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web Page #9

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What we saw there

in that town hall,

that was the resistance.

[Snowden] You've got this network

of sensors around the world,

so I can see everything.

I can see what book

you looked at at Amazon.com.

I can see who you talk to.

I can see who

your friends on Facebook are.

I can see

the text messages you sent.

I can read the emails you

wrote, and I can set up things

[Glenn] ...exactly the

kind of mass surveillance

that Prime Minister Key not only

vehemently denied was being done,

but which he promised

he would resign

if it were determined his government

were actually engaged with.

[Julian]

Further, intelligence agencies

by definition

are designed to operate

outside the law,

and so they cannot be trusted.

[Fisher] No matter what Assange

or Snowden were gonna say,

Dotcom was still

the emperor with new clothes.

He hadn't produced the thing that

he had pledged that he would,

that he had been talking about

for ever so long...

and that was

a real problem for Dotcom

and for pretty much anybody

that had backed him up

until that point.

[man] What people have been

waiting for tonight

is when Kim Dotcom

came to the parliament

and said that he would prove

that John Key was a liar,

- tonight, we're, excuse me...

- [man 2] Which he did.

[Dotcom]

Which I did, absolutely...

No, about knowing

about you before the raid.

And let me

just reply to this, OK?

I think, and I want to address

all media here tonight.

You have an obligation

after what you have

learned tonight

to take the information

that you were told here

by Glenn Greenwald

and Edward Snowden

to the Prime Minister

and this government

and hold them accountable.

We have focused on

the much bigger lie,

which is not about my case,

which is about

every single New Zealander

who is subjected

to mass surveillance.

That is the story that

you should focus on.

Get your priorities right.

[Patrick] We will. We will...

I hope you will,

because in the past, Patrick,

you have let

New Zealanders down.

I don't understand

how you let the Prime Minister

get away time and time again

with his lies and his spin.

You need to do your job,

and everyone here

needs to do their job.

[Patrick] I'm doing

my job by asking you.

Kim Dotcom, what's gone wrong?

Kim Dotcom, what's gone wrong?

Why couldn't you front

the evidence tonight?

- What's gone wrong?

- I think that's it.

Thank you, thank you very much.

[indistinct murmuring]

[Dotcom] That email, I know

it comes from hacker circles.

You know about

the famous Sony hack.

The same people who were

responsible for that

were responsible for this hack.

I was assured that that

email would contain headers,

which is what allows you

to identify all the details.

You know,

what mail server was used,

the date stamps that

would have allowed anyone

to verify the contents,

but unfortunately

the email was not leaked

with that information, so it

became useless for me. Yeah.

And I regret that I could

not use it in the event.

[man] [murmuring]

and welcome to Decision '14.

The campaign is over.

The voting is over,

and the counting has begun.

Now, politics is

very serious business.

This has been a fairly serious,

and at times thoroughly

unpleasant, campaign.

[indistinct chatter]

Now will be hoping that they've got

something to celebrate tonight.

[crowd cheering]

[Bryce] Right at the start,

there was quite a swelling

of support for Dotcom

because they saw him as someone

that had been the victim

of the big Goliaths

of the U.S., FBI,

the New Zealand Police,

but suddenly he was seen

as a more aggressive player,

and it was John Key

that was the underdog.

[man] The Internet Mana

party is in trouble.

[woman] Oh, my goodness,

in the last 20 minutes,

it's all completely

changed out here.

[man] This is phenomenal. What we are

seeing here is the Internet Mana alliance

is not in Parliament,

and Kim Dotcom's millions and millions

of dollars goes down the drain.

[camera shutters clicking]

[crowd whistling]

[cheering and clapping]

Good evening, everybody.

We lost tonight because of me.

[crowd] No. No! No.

I take... I have to say this.

I have to say it. I am sorry.

[woman] It's how

the media portrayed you!

I'm... I'm really sorry

I have to say this.

I have to say this.

I take full responsibility

for this loss tonight

because the brand... the

brand Kim Dotcom was poison

for what we were

trying to achieve,

and I did not see that before,

and it only became apparent to

me in the last couple of weeks.

So to all of you

who have worked so hard,

I say, thank you very much.

[crowd cheering and clapping]

[man] Three more years.

[crowd cheering]

[bird chirping]

[fluttering]

[machine whirring]

[Dotcom]

The day after the election,

the Solicitor General

of New Zealand

has approached

my lawyers and asking

if I was willing

to leave New Zealand,

the case would be resolved.

There wouldn't have

to be an extradition,

and this whole thing

could go away.

You don't do a raid like this

and destroy a man's family

and his business

and cause so much pain

and get away with it

with some piece of paper

that says, "Yeah,

I've done something wrong",

but now I am free.

Thank you very much."

Well, f*** them.

[metal clattering]

[reporter] After four

and a half years of delays,

the extradition hearing

against Kim Dotcom

and the Megaupload co-accused

starts in Auckland,

New Zealand today.

The Judge will determine whether

the four men will be free

to remain in New Zealand

or whether

they will be sent to the U.S.,

where they could face

decades in prison.

This is cited as

the largest copyright case

that our world has ever seen.

We still think we should win,

and we are hopeful that we will.

We are.

Are you worried about

what the decision might be?

Please don't fall, OK?

Be careful there.

[Dotcom] I am very confident

in my legal team.

All our submissions

are excellent.

Any unbiased legal mind

is going to see

what has happened here.

[Ron]

The case is really important

because it raises

important legal issues

in relation to

the extradition process,

but first, they've got to show

that the conduct they complain of

is, in fact, a crime.

We say, look, what you allege

on the facts is not a crime.

And Your Honor will see that there

is a specific piece of legislation

called the Copyright Act,

and it provides protection

for Internet Service Providers.

Simply providing that technology

to its users

does not expose a company

to civil or criminal liability.

[Greg] They seem very confident.

They always point

to the same things.

There's nothing in New Zealand-U.S.

treaty that covers copyright,

and they think that

they're gonna win.

OK. Miss Gordon.

The dishonesty at the core

of Megaupload's operations

may be expressed in

straightforward terms.

The evidence boils down

to a simple scheme of fraud,

not a passive dumb pipe

service provider,

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