Now you may remember how during the 2014 General Election here in New Zealand that kim.com brought
to New Zealand Julian Assange and Edward Snowden to speak to us via videoconference to explain
how New Zealand was under mass surveillance by offshore interests and we know that kim.com
himself was subject to surveillance and also to an FBI raid led by the New Zealand police.
Police seized bank accounts on behalf of the FBI and took
away property worth millions now they may have to give it all back and said damning
judgment and legal and lawful invalid just as when Kalman doesn't hold back
I've been arrested on warrants relating to breach of copyright offenses in the
United States money laundering and racketeering within New Zealand we
have seized in excess of six million dollars worth of tapia Motor Vehicles
and over ten million dollars in cash from several New Zealand finance companies
More details of kim dot-coms actions during the rate of emerged police
say when they arrived in two helicopters calm retreated into an electronically locked panic
room they found him clutching a sawed-off shotgun and they had to cut him out of the
There was a feeling that the machinery of state had been exposed to games.com in a way that was
just suddenly New Zealanders saw that there was two sides to the story and maybe this was for
the you respected bullying someone that was a spanner on the books of Hollywood productions.
There's huge contradictions in kim.com even in the face of those huge legal battles
he faces he seems to have a huge sense of humor and likes to taunt the US government
I think that playful attitude is one reason that a lot of people who might otherwise
be really skeptical of what he's done knowing that you know the primary driving force behind
many of these companies is to make money nevertheless kind of can appreciate him
it's quite interesting that a lobby arounds entertainment content can get the White House
to move against an internet nerd with military force I mean think about that for a moment isn't
it it's it's funny and none of it would change anything none of what they've done has changed
anything to either the way the internet works or the levels of piracy during the High Court
hearings grant loom old who's been cross-examined and he was being asked about his notebook and he
looked extremely awkward on the 14th of December that I was in 11th was there a further meeting
that you attended to parent this operation where there was a range of people there someone from the
Justice Department yes and was there another group of people represented as well event leaving yes
there was what field activity were they was they work for the government right well you're not able
to tell us who they were I'd rather not reason just because of the nature of the organization
it was clear that something had gone horribly horribly wrong
the Intelligence Agency since I have become involved to let the megaupload case
the Jesus made the government communication Security Bureau New
Zealand's equivalent to the National Security Agency were spying on calm
that's in say a part of what's called the five eyes arrangement five eyes
between them spy on the world the power that they have is immense
1cm combos in New Zealand the US began exploiting the relationship that they
have with the GCSB in the New Zealand government to ensure that getting kept calm became one of
their principal priorities to the point where they engaged in illegal surveillance to do so
the GCSB is controlled by quite specific legislation that says you
know how to spy on zealand residents from citizens
this is something I really like to play now that is important for me when they tapped
into my iPhone because of that happens see what the dieters the way you think completely
you realize that it wasn't just my emails that they read they were there when I was
private with my wife they were right there they have no business doing that to anybody at all
find that more than a little bit disturbing
is that a way the government is supposed to act with communications monitoring are you supposed
to be turning the antennas that are meant to protect your country from outside threats back
on yourself for the prosecution of when I may be sure in New Zealand is necessarily a criminal act
tonight the kim.com affair is leaving John Key's government increasingly red-faced the boss of the
Intelligence Bureau at Prime Minister John Key has ordered a probe into illegal bugging of the
internet millionaire course I apologize mr. Kham I apologize to New Zealanders because every New
Zealand ever sits within the category of holding a permanent residency or a New Zealand citizen
is entitled to be protected from the law this is really a matter of mistake and human error
not one of a great conspiracy the whole core megaupload process turned out to be farmed
the New Zealand ever bargained for anything that we could get wrong we got wrong the New Zealand
authorities imaged to pretty much screw up every step of the process flow away the search one that
was used to execute the right it has to be the directive reverbs whatever the alleged
criminal enterprises this document didn't do there it was an incredibly vague document
authorities New Zealand client comms laptops which have been seized during
the ride the cordon and the figure we said this evidence remains in New Zealand the
FBI took the clients and sent them back to the United States it's extraordinary
doc Holmes writes the process of war had been fought and there needed to be some sort of address
for that the internet millionaires been back in court for a 3-day hearing police were quizzed
about what level of threat he posed and whether the Alito special detectors group was needed to
execute the search warrants in January but police are not every day going into the mystic houses and
to the teeth with automatic weapons bashing down doors quartering the household and a paramilitary
fish shouting orders at one another that's not ordinary police practice a New Zealanders
adorab I missed something I think you've missed something it's the risk assessment is that there
are firearms in the property the police will not execute that suit on the way out and police
one reads the indictment of megaupload I noticed that there were references to child pornography
and terrorism they do not have any relevance to a claim of copyright infringement but that
is part of the efforts to paint the defendants as extremely dangerous and ugly and nasty persons and
the jurors photography they had a message a guy's dangerous he has weapons and so everybody thought
this kim.com guy is not just the piracy they gave the impression that he was much more dangerous
and there were other things that he might mean to you and of course I turned out to be alive