and copyright infringement give an example of the amount of government overreach in this case can dot com as a german citizen who lives in new zealand that didn't prevent their all out which aren't are they raided his home and seize assets that of course be a botched their investigation every step of the way leaving the heavily contentious case pending marty's andrew blake just return to new zealand where he sat down with can dot com self he was also present at the tycoons mansion for the launch of his brand new web site now simply called mega and check this out within twenty four hours of its launch it's all one million users sign up so the talk about this launch and the u.s. government's crusade against can dot com i'm joined now by our to a producer andrew blake oh hi. this wasn't any old lunch i mean this is a huge extravagant party tell us about it well i've actually never been to any sort of internet launch party before i don't know about you i know. this is the first time for me. that a few hundred people over to his house around town thirty miles outside of auckland

new zealand so little town called coatesville it's actually the most valuable property in the whole country but he had a couple hundred people come over they gathered for a press conference but in typical kim dotcom fashion everything was very much larger than life going to be recreated the raid for blood here and go exactly when the f.b.i. grabbed f.b.i. grabbed the new zealand authorities showed up at his house and helicopters jumped down off the roof of the tried to find him arrested him hauled him off to prison recreated the whole thing with armed guards running through the crowd pyrotechnic answers dressed as a agents there were dancers dressed as f.b.i. agents and then there was also just like. sexy f.b.i. agents like this you know disguised with guns and sunglasses running around so i mean i was thinking the original raid from a year earlier probably wasn't as entertaining but it's nice that can actually crack a joke. in here. it is it is on to raj of spies this is a very

a it's a very different press conference from what i'm used to but you know when when ken was actually up there he made a bunch of really powerful statements about what's up with with mega upload you know it's up with the new project mega and he definitely put his serious head on for a little bit it wasn't all just funny. there's actually you know a very good reason for him to be putting together this presser to actually explain this new project which he thinks might revolutionize the way that we use the internet of course and you know that's what i love about can dot com is he still has a sense of humor this spy and this insane and this insanity against him from the u.s. government he's still just hilarious i mean there is a loving life. and i heard you took a helicopter ride around the property i mean that's so awesome let's talk about the new site ok yes is it the same concept as megaupload is it just a storage site yeah essentially i mean mega upload was one of the most popular websites in the world for pretty much it's the whole existence and you know he said millions and millions and millions of people used to log on you uploaded files you

got a link you sent to someone that person downloaded a file off some really easy way to send really large files u.s. government didn't really like it though they said well people can take large files that they don't own and send it to other people who don't own them and then they can illegally download it kim dot com and a lot of other people there will tell you that it was used very very very legitimately by a very very large group of people but megaupload is gone the f.b.i. a sea state it's been over a year now with a site like we saw that screenshot is just sitting there on available seized by the f.b.i. what mega does is it's another way of taking files putting them online sharing them with others however everything that you do goes through layers of encryption so that there's no way or if there's not an easy way to see what it is you're exactly doing what kind of files you're sharing what kind of files what the what the metadata says what the internal data says all that stuff is so so that people conducting surveillance on you know your online communications can't. certainly see

what's happening you can just take a file put it on line said to someone if they have the key they can see the file done it's just a nice way of being private which with the internet really should be people should be able to use it to communicate and communicate privately absolutely and i think it's a brilliant concept you know you sat down and cannot promise i mentioned before to talk specifically about this case against him let's hear a bit of that ok you know we're going to play it right that. president obama and the obama administration are colluding with movie companies in order to orchestrate this giant arrest here in new zealand is this kind of give and take relationship between washington and hollywood although you say it is or are you just the exception does this really exist well i mean you have to look at the players behind this case ok the driving force of course is christophe the chairman of. a and he was a senator for

a long time and he is according to joe biden joe biden's best friend and. the state attorney that is in charge of this case has been joe biden's personal counsel while he was a senator right and also worked as an anti-piracy you know manager for the b.s.a. business office so see asian which is basically like the m.p.a. but for software companies so and also the timing it's very interesting you know. the election time. fundraisers in hollywood set for february march april and you know they had to be some kind of plan b. and turn it to force. because the president certainly was aware and his team in the white house was aware if they don't have. anything to give at those fundraisers to

those guys in hollywood who are eager to you know have more control over the internet he wouldn't probably raise that much and you know hollywood is a very important contributor to bombers campaign not just with money but also was the media support you know they control a lot of media celebrity endorsements and all that so you know i'm sure the election plays an important role the relationships of the people that are in charge of this case play a important role and of course we have facts that we want to present at our extradition hearing that will show some more detail about this and that this is not just some comfort conspiracy theory but this actually happened the u.s. justice department wants to extradite you a german citizen living in new zealand operating a business in hong kong they want to extra you back to the u.s.

now is that even possible well see that is a very interesting question because the extradition law the extradition treaty in new zealand doesn't really allow extradition for copyright so what they did they threw some extra charges on top and one of them is racketeering where they basically say we are a mafia organization and we set up our internet business to basically be an organized crime network that was set up and structured the way it was just to do criminal copyright infringement and anyone who has ever used mega uploads any idea about how that website worked knows immediately that it's total nonsense but they needed to chop that on in order to have even a chance for extradition but in our opinion you see all of that i think was secondary the primary goal was. to take down mega upload this draw it

completely that was their mission and that's why the whole thing in hong kong for example they called it operation takedown and i think everything that's happening now they're trying on the fly dr to rhyme and found a way to find a case they probably came here and thought we will find something that these guys have done something wrong because in the indictment if you actually you know read that it's more like a press release there's nothing in this. you know that is has any merits but when the when the raid happened one year ago today it got a lot of people talking people talking about the internet and it got a lot of people talking about about you can dot com. but it was a lot of talking in not so much action because here it is a year later and this case is still happening now back up earlier this month we saw aaron swartz a online information activists passed away it was only in his mid twenty's and it

got a lot of people talking so much so that members of congress have actually asked for updates to federal computer laws so that so that this doesn't happen again now we're seeing people talking once more but what's it actually going to take for people to get up and start doing actual action what's it going to take to get people to actually do something well our case is going to be one that will have much more attention down the road because it is a crucial case for internet freedom and i think more and more people realize that and the government is quite exposed here because they really went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying. i mean the whole picture when you look at it shows that this was an urgent

mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that and the execution was extremely poor and the case is extremely poor because that is something they thought they can worry about later it was all about the take down that sent a strong message to hollywood that we are on their side i mean let me give you one example of how crazy this is we have a church who said please show us your evidence about your allegations show us that these guys were setting up some kind of organized crime network right so because that's what the extradition with focus on primarily they're using the organized crime treaty to get us extradited ok so the u.s. appealed that and said no we don't want to show you what we have and then they

appealed to the high court and the high court then said well we want to see it and they just keep appealing it all the way to the court of appeals and to the supreme court and what does that tell you you know if you don't even want to show your cards show us what you have you know if you have such a strong case and you're seriously interested about getting someone extradited why waste all this time just show your hand you know and they don't have anything because we haven't done anything wrong we were law abiding we were a good corporate citizen and they knew with that that time they came here to do this it's bad faith it's malicious they just want to take us down. he said it was worth and you're blake in his experience you can not come after the break if you like we see so far go our you tube channel if you dot coms are breaking the set described it on hulu as well good accomplished breaking the set good and like our facebook a. facebook dot com slash break in the center of your what about what i'm doing

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choose me access to your office. the letter. says users you've never seen anything like. this. so right now and welcome back our to our producer and you to brief what we just saw the interview with can dot com so so the last thing he was saying was that he has the law on his side i mean there was no legal bounds for the government to go across the world and extradite him does he have alongside here i mean i'm not a legal expert i don't know sure if you are going to. if you want me to all the great all you know and i'm not going to take any sides because i don't think that would be the journalistic thing to do but let's look at this like you're a german citizen living in new zealand operating

a website based in china being prosecuted by the united states government that's a little harsh when you go back and he said let's look at the players in this let's look at why this is happening in the movie industry the music industry doesn't like kim dotcom because they said mega upload was used to illegally distribute copyrighted files right motion picture association of america and the recording industry association of america the two big hollywood lobbying groups ok. now the prosecutor that filed all these charges a felony mule mcbride he's a prosecutor in virginia and he is the one actually filed the indictment against him dot com coincidentally neil mcbride is also b.f.s. with joe biden ok so we have this instant connection with the obama administration and the prosecutor now the other weird thing is this neil macbride fellow he used to lobby for the software business association think it's a business software association he was a lobbyist ok here's a lobbyist who then became appointed by the obama administration remember when obama doesn't appoint. you might not really he said yeah he says

a lot of things doesn't mean so actually when obama first came in for the first two and four years four years ago he did that whole thing was i am going to close that revolving door no more lobbyist no more lobbyist and you actually had to fit in a certain window where you couldn't lobby before by so many years and you can lobby by after and when they appointed neil mcbride the district attorney's office actually said it's ok he wasn't lobbying during that window so everything's fine he's going to be the district attorney he's going to file the charges and everything is fine everything's fine if you go when you look back right before this indictment was filed right before neil mcbride was actually appointed he actually was working for a lot of guys so it's a lie yeah pretty much so that's just one of many many many reasons this whole thing is garbage and another interesting fact about it that i just forgot to tell you remind me is that this was within days of so being blocked and then so it was almost like these lobbying groups in the entertainment industry the music industry

they really were pushing hard for so but when that fell short the u.s. government almost was like we need to do something we need to set an example of someone exactly know kim dotcom even said that the obama administration knew so stop online privacy piracy act rather it was going to fail and if that means hollywood is going to be pissed at the white house so what can you do he has to make an example out of someone who needs to prove to hollywood look i'm tough on top. you're right infringement i'll do something all all go to the other side of the country in arrest someone from another part of the world and so yeah so i'm still little jetlag but you get the point here there's a whole lot of things here that just don't really seem to add up but really one big thing is it's been over a year now it's been over a year since this happened the us still hasn't been able to extradite him in new zealand the case is falling apart on a local level and internationally it seems like every time came to dot com his lawyers go into court in the us and try to fight for him every single time they can just like the one more punch in the face of the government and it seems like the

case is literally falling apart day by day but it's been over a year now he remains in new zealand he can't really go anywhere right now and he has a new site though. julian a son you know going to such great lengths to try to extradite someone who is not american citizen and and just adding on these extra charges of conspiracy i mean basically treating him like the mafia which is completely outrageous you know we're going to have more with you and more of the interview tomorrow well i can't wait to have you i can't wait either and you're always thanks man no problem. with the manufactured one and for our corporate news cycle it's extremely rare to see someone breaking the set from within which is why i'm very excited for my next guest is someone was bold enough to go on talks news and call the network a festival of ignorance on top of that he's mastered the art of truth telling through comedy so joining me now from new york is leak camp comedian activist and

creator of the movement of clarity viral web series lee awesome to have you on. a long time viewer first time guests we manual hopefully you can be on more and more you know i mean here in d.c. painstakingly had to sit through this inaugural dog and pony show first of all why are we doing this huge ceremony to celebrate someone who's already been seated for four years. come on abby you know why we do it we've got to get together every four years so that we can all talk about the first lady's hair i mean that that seems to be the one thing that came out of this inauguration was talk of her hair i mean i can't if she came out with your haircut i think the mainstream media might explode . exactly like a fashion show i mean the diamonds the glitz and glamour talking about the ball what they're wearing what how how clinton was look at look at kelly clarkson's but there were jeans you know and here you had a million people waving these tiny american flags that look like i mean they're all decked out in their their obama high figure and i couldn't help but think did these

people forget what a bad president he's been for the last four years. you know it's a nice little let's let's forget the past four years and let's try and pretend we're starting over again but one thing we did all agree on at the inauguration was apparently that no one can handle poetry anymore. you remember though blanco read a poem he was the first you know the he was gay and latino and it was a big moment for everything and instead you had all the republicans mainly sitting there snorting at him because they couldn't stand that there was a poet. how dare you how dare you bring that in you know one thing that obama condemned in his speech i thought was particularly interesting was the idea of perpetual war i mean leave are we living in the sun here and did i miss something has a perpetual war been perpetuated by obama. yeah yeah we've got the war thing go i think every war should come with a bomb by date you know like milk it's just like the moment they start of

a bomb by day and it doesn't matter if you're done it's after the day you gotta stop just to be like milk it should be just over on a date but you do have to give the obama's vision credit for one thing they realized too many civilians were dying from drone aircraft attacks too many civilians dying so they did something about it they changed the definition of the word civilian. exactly now it's militant i mean that's when you can get high level defense officials coming out and saying no no civilians have died oh you mean just all those military age males who are just dead no they're terrorists they're terrorists they're brown and they're dead so they must be terrorists right exactly and the problem is in a word you know they change it so that any military age male in the target area is now a combatant but that's got to apply to us too so if you're near a marine at an airport or something you thought you were just an overweight accountant sitting you know working on one number two and love handle number seven but no you're a combatant. you mention your appearance on fox news the other but i really talking

about it doesn't do it justice i want everyone to take a listen let's play that. clip and i can sense because sure what is fox news is just a parade of propaganda. stuff festival of ignorance. of million people who did not come on this is ridiculous what's the point of this this is a lot of. people who go outside go go hug me well come on you love you blue you know that. you think is wrong all the yeah yeah. i think i think ok this is all right we're also talking about captain i love it tosses the captain kirk act like you trojan horse men you go in there how the hell did you get on and how did they react after. well they expected me to just play the game like most people you know they knew i was left wing and but they thought i would just come on in and be nice and tell little jokes but i had no interest in that i mean with the

amount of blood that's been shed over the various wars i wasn't going to be there monkey boy so i wimmin told the truth and telling truth in the fox news studio that that's like a bad smell they all freak out and make ugly faces. and the best part was that they did accidentally provide their own punchline by then throwing it there's something about the captain getting laid so that's really serious that's way more serious than a million done iraqis come on leave. i want to talk about the corporate news and i mean what is it about this fake girlfriend stunt that gives the media such a hard on. yeah the man type tail thing you know what it really shows is just the lack of any effort to do any research into anything by the media this is a heisman trophy runner up and they can't figure out that he's dead girlfriend is made out of toothpicks and silly putty i mean she made wilson the volleyball in castaway look downright talkative it does it does like it's just

a complete lack of any effort to do research i mean the lance armstrong thing this guy's been do you know seven tour de frances and they never research people it's not you know they love to call it the advanced you know doping scandal that's how they couldn't break the brake job in the story but he was picking up drugs in the parking lot of mcdonald's this is performance enhancing drugs anything that is gained or gathered at a mcdonald's not generally performance enhancing usually makes you obese and diabetes so they should have known something was up but no our media does no research anymore on anything. one of my favorite things that i see. when you talk about advertising and television in general is gone totally downhill you've said that the average human spends fifteen years of their lives watching brainless television i mean think about all the advertising that's just melting in our brains i mean what is that really doing to us. yeah it is true over an eighty year

lifespan and these you know these old numbers these are five years ago over an eighty year lifespan fifteen and a half years of having our brains liquefied and sodomized and glorifying products and nonsense and it does it it completely you know it's it's how you end up with a country with the most anorexic people in the world and the most obese people in the world at the same time because people are selling these awful foods that aren't even food and at the same time making people feel horrible about their bodies and so it's completely screwing up you know totally ran like the fast food nation and everyone's just dying g.m. owes etc and then they're like you know you have acne you're not good enough you can't get. this function and restless leg syndrome everyone's like yeah i think you know my legs kind of are breslow so i'm watching t.v. for eight hours in a row maybe i'll sell take notes and go get popped pills but i can't let you go without asking you about the fortieth anniversary of cease fire in vietnam i mean do you see any similarities between the red scare in the war on terror or is it just me. yeah i think there is

a similarity in that you've got to keep people afraid all of the time i mean the war on terror is you know twice as many people die from terrorist attacks in america each year of toys many people die from peanut allergies are from terrorist attacks so you see where i'm headed with this point we need to work equally hard to protect ourselves from peanuts we need a peanut alert sjoerd we need we need to do if someone leaves a bag of peanuts on attended we're going to blow that up we're going to drop marines into the planters compound or shoot mr peanut in the face. and that goes to for anyone who wants the world monocle and to top that if you want to dress like a pinata we will treat you like a pinata. you can comedian there is really appreciate you coming on thanks. to marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the vietnam war we went into vietnam because of communism the invisible bogeyman that they claim to destroy democracy as we know it that visible. but the man still exists today has taken on

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