Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit

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."

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I for one welcome our new fat internet overlord

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm also switching from Gmail to Megamail, even if it doesn't erase my Google history.

Warner Brothers exec was overheard saying...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your eggses precious, we wants them. Yes, precious...

Easy Explanation

[maroberts]

The US believes Kim is a hobbit-ual criminal....