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Mega Man

17 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Kim Dotcom sits at the center of a fight over what the internet is for. The United States wants the 39-year-old extradited from New Zealand on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering, and racketeering, tied to his shut-down file-sharing site Megaupload, which prosecutors say earned him $175 million while costing copyright owners $500 million. The film shows footage of the special forces raid on his Auckland mansion, which his lawyer calls "a political contract hit," and follows the question of why both the US and New Zealand governments are pursuing him so hard. Dotcom, flamboyant and unapologetic, argues he is a convenient scapegoat, and uses interviews to lay out his case that mass internet surveillance, not piracy, is the real threat. He is also building a successor, Mega, which he pitches as a privacy tool rather than another piracy haven. Produced by Mark Davis, the film keeps both sides on record and leaves the extradition case, and the future of Dotcom's new venture, unresolved.