Kim Dotcom interviewed

Interview with SPIEGEL TV: Kim Dotcom against Hollywood

Still not allowed to leave Kim Dotcom New Zealand. The United States accused him of mass distribution of pirated copies. A SPIEGEL TV team was the Internet multimillionaire now unusual insight into his soul.

From Auckland reported Thilo Thielke

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Spiegel,

26 January, 2013

In the small recording studio in Auckland's city rumble the beats. "I just want to live my life," roars out of the box. The singer has made himself comfortable in an armchair, his belly resting on a cushion, feet bounce to the beat, and with his hands he plays air drums.

Kim Schmitz , who is now Kim Dotcom is, clearly has fun at the reception. In December, the album should be ready. Now is padded, sometimes late into the night. And because everything he tackles, must be mega-hit American producers press in Auckland, New Zealand, currently the handle in his hand. Even the drummer of AC / DC was a guest.

What it is in the songs, a kind of trance music? Mainly dotcoms life philosophy: "I just wanna have fun: on the beach, in the sun I just wanna feel good, all the time, like I should.." Of course, the politicians get off their fat. "After all, is an anti-establishment song," explains the composer and scolds:. "In politics anyway just rumgelogen" Particularly with the American government, he is at war.

Since January 2012, a special command dotcoms huge estate in Coatesville, about a half hour drive from Auckland stormed, fights the internet multimillionaire from Kiel to his reputation, his fortune and his freedom. Schmitz then spent a month in jail His luxury cars were taken away, his pictures suspended, confiscated bottles of red wine. In Manila, Hong Kong, Munich, investigators struck. Since then, dotcoms are frozen accounts, the passport was withdrawn from the trades. Because the United States accuse the chief of staff seconded Internet platform Megaupload, having amassed with the massive proliferation of pirated a million fortune.

The tide seems to turn in his favor

At that time, the lawyers of the American film industry were looking forward to the delivery of the founder of the Internet platform Megaupload. But then suddenly doubts crept New Zealand judge whether the use against the German entrepreneur was actually legal.

You put the former hacker once free again and blew from the planned delivery . Since then Dotcom not allowed to leave the country though. The Journal, however, seems to slowly turn in his favor. In Auckland and Wellington even protesters took to the streets, demanding justice for the Germans with the big wallet, the New Year's Eve in 2010 donated his adopted hometown of Auckland a gigantic fireworks.

The suspicion of Schmitz Friends: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key could have exaggerated his sycophancy towards the U.S. something. The longer drags the Dotcom case, the clearer will be saying: "Behind the Schmitz-arrest puts the influential American film industry that not dares to get to U.S. giants such as YouTube or Dropbox." So it says at least Dotcom's lawyer Robert Amsterdam.

The Canadians, with offices in London, Washington and Toronto is a world-renowned specialist in human rights cases. The Dotcom case for him is a prime example of prosecutorial arrogance: "The attack of the U.S. government on the popular cloud storage service Megupload that dramatized arrest of founder Kim Dotcom and the worldwide seizure of his assets is one of the clearest examples of prosecutorial over-reaction in recent history dar. " Thus, according to the Amsterdam paper "MegaUpload, the copyright lobby and the future of digital rights." Even the Frankfurt District Court stated in its judgment determines the operation of an online storage service would not necessarily mean a breach of copyright, and thus rejected a request for assistance from the FBI back.

"I was eavesdropping for years"

That, if one follows the logic of U.S. prosecutors, also can close the post, because it transports ransom letters, see more and more New Zealand judge that. First, they found that the search warrant was illegal and material was unlawfully entering the United States. Then Prime Minister John Key had to apologize publicly, because the secret Dotcom was intercepted illegally. Later, the New Zealand police illegally confiscated hard drives had to return.

In an interview with SPIEGEL TV Kim Dotcom now declared: "In my case, even the eavesdropping program was Prism used in the program was supplied with my e-mail addresses and telephone numbers for many years has been listened to my communication... " He was being treated like a terrorist.

In fact, prosecutors had Hollywood's pretty trick to drive the New Zealanders in dramatic use. Because copyright cases are usually prosecuted by civil law and for such a procedure no extradition is made, they said Megaupload ado for criminal organization that never has a different goal than to harm the American film industry.

Lawyer: Americans have easy victim sought

"Since one's hair stand on end," said attorney dotcom Amsterdam SPIEGEL ONLINE. According to the Canadian criminal defense lawyer, the Americans were looking for an easy victim, and also found in Dotcom: "This is a German with an oblique way of life He has a past as a hacker.." On the way one would have thought to kill two birds with one stone: "Such a thing is done for the U.S. film lobby, and you do not mess with the native Internet economy also benefits from the action."

When he's not sitting in the studio and making music dotcom curves with a souped-up golf carts around his on his hilly property. The little car, after all, are, left to him. "Oh, it's beautiful here," enthuses the Hallodri, formerly liked to surround himself on expensive yacht with bikini girls, "I want to be here with my family and old." He became a new man, older, more mature - family man with a wife and five children. After Germany did not just pull him back. And by the German Embassy also no one has since he fights for his reputation in New Zealand reported.