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

Posted by samzenpus on from the hobbit:-the-speculation-of-com dept.

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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  1. Can't connect to mega.co.nz by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a provider that still supplies Usenet/newsgroups as part of the service for no
    extra cost (Charter.Net), yet I can't connect to mega.co.nz. I've searched
    my HOSTS file, see that it's online http://pop.robtex.com/mega.co.nz.html#records
    I just can't connect, thepiratebay.sx not a problem.

    Hope it's a misspelling, or temporary.