Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web Page #3

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And they arrested me,

and they took me

to a Thai prison,

the worst living conditions that I

have ever experienced in my life.

And the embassy people arrive,

"and they say," Look,

if you want to leave,

we can give you

a travel document.

"You can fly back to Germany."

[indistinct murmuring]

And of course I agreed.

[murmuring]

[camera shutters clicking]

[Fisher] The way that

German authorities recast it,

they had to go to

Thailand to drag him back.

Dotcom would have it that

he came back willingly

to face the charges.

[murmuring]

[Dotcom] In the end,

I agreed to a plea bargain.

[people speaking German]

[Dotcom] I simply didn't want

to deal with it anymore.

I wanted to leave Germany behind

and start a new life

somewhere else.

[Sean] If there is any

place in the world

that is left as sort of

the edge of business,

of finance, of legality...

It's a wild west sort of town.

Hong Kong is

all about capitalism.

Companies start there daily

and disappear the next day.

It was both at

the center of the world

and on its edge.

He felt it was

really easy to restart

what he was trying to do in Germany,

there, without much oversight.

[robotic voice]

Welcome to the Kimpire.

Using a PC to download music

is one of the hottest of

today's computer trends,

and that has the recording

companies up in arms

and heading to court.

Members of

the entertainment industry

are fighting new websites

like Napster

which allow you

to download music

off of the Internet

free of charge.

[man]

It's a surprisingly simple idea

known as file-sharing.

Napster is providing

a service that give people

the opportunity to

steal our music.

[Greg] It started

with the music industry.

They were no longer in charge

of how they

distributed their wares

because we had Napster.

If it was digitized,

then you could copy it and

send it across the globe.

Any one person could do that.

When I wanted something

special, a certain song,

I couldn't find it. I couldn't

buy it in a record store,

and I couldn't order it.

I just went online

and got it from Napster

or from some other dark

corner in the Internet.

It was a little en vogue.

It was a little radical.

Everybody did this in

this transition times

when the legal market,

legal online market,

started to establish.

In that time,

everybody did this.

[Moby] Every aspect of

music has changed,

how it's consumed,

how it's disseminated,

how it's marketed.

It's this shifting climate,

and the old guard's

trying to hold on

and penalize anyone who impedes

their revenue streams.

So they had these crazy lawsuits

against suburban housewives

who had downloaded

illegally 20 songs,

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