Kim Dotcom: US 'will regret what it's done'

12 Feb 2013, 10:46 am   -   Source: SBS Dateline
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Kim Dotcom tells Dateline that he'll make the US Government regret what it's done over the raid on his file sharing empire.

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Controversial internet entrepreneur and self-proclaimed defender of internet freedom, Kim Dotcom, says he’ll be fighting the United States Government and making it ‘regret what it’s done’.

His stark message comes in an in-depth profile by Dateline’s Mark Davis.

The flamboyant 39-year-old tycoon, born in Germany as Kim Schmitz, is fighting extradition to the United States on copyright, money laundering and racketeering charges over his now defunct file sharing website, Megaupload.

“They came into my life and thought they can destroy me and kill me. They picked the wrong guy, cause I know how to fight back and I’m going to fight back effectively,” he tells Mark.

Before being shut down, it’s alleged Megaupload netted US$175 million and cost copyright owners US$500 million by hosting pirated content such as movies, TV shows and music.

But the legal challenge hasn’t stopped Kim launching a new file sharing service, Mega, at a typically lavish and eccentric press conference, complete with a fake FBI raid and female dancers in military uniform.

“What this really is, is a war for control over the internet. The internet is a new world and you want to make sure - the US government wants to make sure - they have control of this most powerful market place of the future," Dotcom says.

“The internet belongs to nobody - no man, no corporation, no government - and that’s what these people need to understand. The internet is there for everybody, for society to evolve faster, to share knowledge and to accelerate our development as a race.”

Dotcom also opens up about his days as a young hacker, his family life, and the journey that has led him to where his is today.

“It’s a belief and it’s a mission. It’s a mission to give their rights to privacy back,” he says.
 

Go to the Dateline website to read more and watch the story.
 

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Your Comments

Accountability

dave - from Uki, 3 months ago

The NZ courts have exposed criminal acts by US and NZ 'officials' of a far more serious nature than those alleged against Kim Dotcom yet these officials have not been arrested and charged yet. According to reports the same govt officials previously committed even worse crimes during the Tuhoe 'Terror Raids' and were not arrested and charged then either. It is all very much the same as US govt officials torturing and murdering people and then being indemnified from prosecution. Arrest them NOW!

The U.S. And The U.S. Government Are Two Different Things

Chris - from New York, 3 months ago

Just wanted to suggest that you be more careful with your headlines. Kim Dotcom has nothing against the U.S. as a whole. He does however have something against the U.S. government which has been hijacked by heartless murderess individuals who regularly do terrible things that the citizens of the U.S. do not approve of.

free use of satelites = cheap internet

wayne - from melb., 3 months ago

Good sentiments but everyone forgets that all our technology centres around all those satelites up in space and the US gov't pays for them and doesnt charge for their use by the rest of the world. That is probably what makes them think they have a claim to control over a system that relies heavily on it.

Good on you

Michael - from Sydney, 3 months ago

Keep fighting the good fight Mr. Dotcom!

Look!

t-R0N - from Here and There., 3 months ago

It's US vs Global Corporate Fascism!

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