two years after his arrest, the battle over kim dotcom's extradition continues. >> dotcom: i was illegally g.c.s.b. >> simon: megaupload might not exist anymore, but kim's seized on the controversy to reinvent himself. always a master of marketing, he's become the darling of the media in new zealand and a self- styled privacy activist. he's announced plans to form a political party, and early last year, on the anniversary of that raid, he launched a brand new file sharing service. he is, as always, the star of his own movie. but this time, he didn't write the script. >> dotcom: stop this madness. let's all be friends. >> simon: we asked the f.b.i. to talk to us about the >> simon: we asked the department of justice and the f.b.i. to talk to us about the case. they declined. so did the motion picture association of america, but they sent us a statement saying, in part, "no industry can compete with theft." [ female announcer ] hands were made for playing. legs, for crossing. feet...splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you'r

because by state and for the second half because kim dotcom. approximately sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. to enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to do illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. choose your bank. account with i wouldn't. choose. to use that to great to. choose the stories but if you. choose. to. what you are arguing for is that current should put that african identity above that national identity let me ask you a personal question. occurred first or and iraq it first occurred first then i mean rocky i am not iraqi that i am a kurds because let me ask you that question i am from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to leave iraq and it brought to me the killings of people mass

because by state ten for the second half because kim dotcom. he survived the atrocities. to make it a psychologist so she. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving. hope. and loves to so many children. nikolai the lyrics work on. if you. start to construct your. no want to be bit give don't want to be gangsters you don't want to. deal with they don't want to blow with the time a kid came be we can see. you just meet over there i was right in the hood. i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young eight. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that. there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. is free cheese. free . these golden rice. welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to new zealand and talk with the man who needs no introduction kim dot com kim welcome to the kaiser report hello makes nice to meet you are you getting a massage there looks like you're in if the presi

current thinking is on crypto currency is and is there room for that in your plans going forward kim dotcom well some very exciting developments you know it might lead to a would currency it might lead to something that unifies the global transaction system so you know it's still in its early stages in its infancy and i think you know over the next decade it's going to grow to become one of the most important ways to to pay for things and transfer assets right. that's a bit of a sieve i was hoping you might get a little bit and you know us deeper into this in terms of as on the business side of what you're doing do you see a role for crypto currencies on the business side of the can dot com ventures going forward because it seems to play into a theme which is encryption and what can you give us any more thoughts on this or are you playing it close to the vest for competitive reasons i'm playing a show so the chest you know i have some interesting things going in that space at mecca we accept the big bitcoin on day one all food long so you know i think that sent a clear message what my posit

i'm in my work bed so this is where i check my emails and stuff ok fair enough right now kim dotcom you rang in the new year with a tweet that said let's encrypt the internet in twenty fourteen what have you got cooking. well guys all appalled secure communications and secure file transfers because as we all know the n.s.a. and their fights partners are spying on us everywhere so america allows people to use encroaching without having to know much about encryption it's all happening in the browser you can securely upload your files onto the cloud you can securely communicate we're working on a skype type the education that will be working within the browser fully encrypted point to point so that you can keep your communications private all right that you mentioned. talk about more magonet and a second here but you mention the n.s.a. and of course your case overlaps this incredible reveal by edward snowden about what the n.s.a. has been up to about and spying on people invading their privacy and going back to your case where there was a raid staged on your estate in new zealand that was

for internet entrepreneur kim dot com it seems the party is stopping before it's even started kim dotcom was set to launch his new political venture called the internet party at his big birthday bash in a new zealand arena dot com revealed through twitter today that he had begun the process of registering the new party's logo with the electoral commission but this afternoon he announced that he would be pulling the plug on the launch party after the commission notified him that it would violate an electoral law known as treating treating refers to treating potential voters with food drink or entertainment in a way that corruptly intends to influence their vote the commission says that those convicted of trading face up to two years in prison and forty thousand dollars in fines taking to twitter today kim dotcom had this to say received guidance from the electoral commission i feel i have no choice but to cancel the party i am so sorry but he did think the twenty five thousand people that registered to attend the free event adding on his event page the words you are all amazing. and the m

communicate so absolutely there are startling free speech concerns here hacker turned billionaire kim dotcom may not be allowed to run for office in new zealand as a german national but that's not stopping the mega upload counter from leaving his mark on the country's politics on our website the full story of the new political party has just launched. and a fishing net company is tasked with developing a remedy for space jump more on the revolutionary plans for a clean up in orbit at r.t. dot com. right from the scene. of the. first strike you and i think that you're. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. at a time of economic unease and deep welfare cuts british politicians haven't been holding back when it comes to immortalize and their colleagues on canvas and in sculpture are leaving taxpayers of course to pick up the tab artie's polly boyko has the details. they say a picture is worth a thousand words but in the case of the u.k. parliament it's more like a quarter of a million pounds it's been revealed that since ninety ninety five m.p.'s have splurged two hundred

much of it because of hollywood and the music industry i don't believe in that and i think that kim dotcom to great thing in the in the software he had developed and of course every every new development is going to be used by crooks and thieves it's just the way the world works well yeah out that was going to be actually my second question because i talk about encryption and it can hide you from government's case and that's great but it also creates all sorts of ways to help criminals where race to middle ground. i don't think there is a middle ground i think that that you cannot preemptively restrict your freedoms because of the fear of what something or how something might be used everything that has ever been developed has been used for a bad purpose baseball bats which are fun for you know for baseball players to hit balls you know they've also been used to beat people to death i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be used in the wrong way and if you look at what the device is i mean privacy good heavens what what what is worse the price of losing your priva

use money to subvert people's will in that present a great threat to democracy in united states kim dotcom the founder of the file sharing site meg upload was arrested in new zealand based on an american criminal copyright indictment when he talked to r.t. he claimed the indictment was based on politics you know they have to be some kind of plan and i turned it to four soap opera. course 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 come pain organizations like the electronic frontier foundation anything google has spoken out against hollywood's copyright crackdown efforts as the entertainment industry fights to protect its profits the worry remains that it could at the cost of a free internet. in los angeles remodeling the party. and the mississippi corrections department announced it will no longer allow conjugal