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Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Megaupload
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Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Megaupload

2013 · 19 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Kim Dotcom built Megaupload into one of the internet's biggest file-sharing sites before US authorities charged him in what prosecutors called history's largest copyright case, and this October 2013 visit finds him under house arrest at his rented mansion outside Auckland. VICE News correspondent Tim Pool spends time with him there and at a recording studio in the city, where Dotcom is working on an EDM album and has Pool lay down backup vocals between interview segments. The conversation moves from the mechanics of the Megaupload takedown to online surveillance and the future of file-sharing, with Dotcom arguing his own case for why the charges against him do not fit the crime. The mansion itself, with its grounds and security presence, sits in visible contrast to a man legally barred from leaving the property, and the film lets that tension sit unresolved rather than push toward a verdict. It is less an investigation than a sit-down with someone still fighting the case in public.