Kim Dotcom interview with JC

[Berries]

It was the price we paid for The Hobbit. Good deal, eh?

Yeah, films about mystical midgets hold my attention.

[sinfull]

It's become a bit of a prick finding workshop manuals to download.

I have a couple

[sinfull]

I support the cunt 100%, no way i'd like to see the FBI (paid by corporates no doubt) beat this guy down !

Freedom of speech would be next, our rights have dwindled so much in the last 20 yrs !
Soon no-one will know nothing of whats going on around them, bar what the media is allowed to portray and the fact that they are finding it hard to make ends meet !

Dotcomoi !!! Let's protest ?

[Macontour]

Yes, he is a very smart guy. He seemed to have solid answers to every question and there was no hesitation or dodging of the questions. i also thought of the example of the storage facility owner not being responsible for what actually happens in the lockups he provides.

KDC also pointed out the ability of the big companies to remove stuff they didn't want there, somewhere in the millions had already been removed. 800 files per second going through his site. How is anyone supposed to police that??

He seemed a genuine nice guy with an awesome grasp of colloquial Kiwi English.

And if the music and movie industries stopped using their "old business model" of releasing movies etc at differing times globally that would probably stop much of the "piracy" that happens.

And the extradition hearing is still 6 months away. If he is that big a criminal how come he didn't get put on the first flight to US and A?

[sinfull]

And the extradition hearing is still 6 months away. If he is that big a criminal how come he didn't get put on the first flight to US and A?

Because NZ is the model country !

Been the testing ground for everything from cell phones to plastic money since the 60's

Why not try this shit on a country of 4 mill before they test it anywhere else where there's 4 mill per city !

Set a precedent they must, to keep feeding the corporate machine and it's greedy engineers and where better to find all the pitfalls in a case like this than in gods-own where the apathetic reign !

I say stop them taking him !
NZ let him come to NZ because of the money he brung wid him ??? But not good enough to protect like a NZ citizen ??? Pfffft NZ citizen, more like lambs waiting to feed a corporate function !!!

Roll over John Key, big brother says so !

[jazfender]

Yep - self-publishing - even like that site Fatt Max uses seem like the future.
The challenge for emerging artists is the getting the punters to the site.

It's still a long way....

This, although the future is already here.

A lot of bands self-publish through sites like soundcloud, bandcamp, last.fm, dropbox etc. As well as the billion different mixtape sites.

Getting people to the site is mainly the provider's job which works in a nice kind of harmony with the artists.

Artists paying for the service not only get to self-publish, they also get the flow-on advantage of wider audiences through the site's traffic. In turn, the artists promote the site.

Everybody wins, except for the old model suits and the RIAA. Boohoo.

[tigertim20]

And if the music and movie industries stopped using their "old business model" of releasing movies etc at differing times globally that would probably stop much of the "piracy" that happens.

This comment right here is bang on the money I reckon. why the fuck do I have to wait 6 months to watch a movie my sister can watch tonight? its dumb.

Im not real keen on the NZ govt bowing down and sucking the FBI's cock. He is in NZ, and from what I see in the media, it looks like the FBI are demanding that, on NZ soil, we should treat this guy according to American law. theres a serious problem here if thats whats going on

[The Lone Rider]

Someone in my family happens to be his lawyer (or one of them).

He'll walk, is what I reckon.

[Swoop]

Someone in my family happens to be his lawyer (or one of them).

He'll walk, is what I reckon.

Hopefully with a shitload of compensation for what he has been put through.

[ducatilover]

Interesting interview, KDC is very well spoken and even laughed, odd for a Kraut...

I agree that he isn't responsible for the piracy, there were obviously systems for the rightful owners to remove files. Also, picking him was a good choice (from a cunty corporate fascist regime view) because he has a history of hacking and fraud.

[avgas]

The only reason he got arrested is because the jews are out to get him. The big music companies are run by jews, John Key is a jew and Kim is German.

So were most of the Jews once.
What you wanted to say was KDC was a Nazi.

But you find it hard to understand that not all Germans are Nazi and not all Jews hate Germans.
Double-Dutch?

[avgas]

Hopefully with a shitload of compensation for what he has been put through.

Would you pay for it?
Because guess who is going to pay him settlement. Won't be the US......they didn't arrest him. The crown did.

[avgas]

I was tempted to nick something off your site and post it here but you're a fair bit bigger than me, and you might not see the humour in it. I do see your point of view

Leaving content on a public (or even 'semi-public') website is like leaving the keys in the ignition at the petrol station.

Have a cry about it because

[SMOKEU]

So were most of the Jews once.
What you wanted to say was KDC was a Nazi.

But you find it hard to understand that not all Germans are Nazi and not all Jews hate Germans.
Double-Dutch?

The jews have been pissed off ever since the NSDAP came to fruition, now they're out to take over the world.

[Virago]

The jews have been pissed off ever since the NSDAP came to fruition, now they're out to take over the world.