Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web Page #4

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you know, trying to like sue

them for millions of dollars.

Well, I don't think this

is about record companies.

I think this is about

whether or not people

who create music,

and invest in music,

have a right to get paid.

The record companies

never gave a damn

about the artist anyway.

95% of them have problems

retrieving their money

from the major corporations

anyway.

Four major corporations,

four of them,

and Hilary is fighting

to protect them.

[man] Ms. Rosen, isn't this strictly

about your profits and your money?

[Hilary] Well, it's about

everybody's profits and money.

[siren ringing]

[Lawrence] Originally the

film industry was quite naive

in believing that

they were immune

because they thought, you know,

we've got two gigabyte,

three gigabyte files,

and if you're sharing those,

you know, on dial-up modems,

it would take days to download.

But, of course,

in the current state,

it's trivial to download

that kind of content.

And so that industry

is threatened as well,

and the business model

of that industry

is very different from music.

You know,

when you get access to music,

you want a song

that if you like it,

you're gonna listen to it

a thousand times.

If you watch a movie,

it's not likely you're gonna

watch it two or three times.

So they had a stronger

reason to be anxious

that people not get access

to their movie

and to bleed

the potential revenue.

You can copy on a digital

format 10,000 copies,

and the ten thousandth copy

is as pure and pristine

as the original.

If you allow that,

you don't have copyright

to protect you on the Internet,

we're dead.

[Greg]

They had no understanding.

The music industry

had been decimated.

The film industry

had the same problem.

They didn't understand

what was coming

until things had already

gotten out of hand.

[yelling]

As you can see, 250,

this is the Gumball speed,

ladies and gentlemen.

[car engines running]

[Fisher] Gumball Rally is where

the richest car nuts in the world

get together to cover thousands

of miles across Europe.

Dotcom treated it

like it was a race

because he likes

to win everything.

This is the winner.

This is the winner.

I've been a hacker

in my early years,

and then I started...

[Dotcom voiceover] You know,

always when I was there,

there were videos made about it,

and I wanted to share them

with my friends.

And I could not because

the files were too big

to send via email.

And I was like, well,

let's create a site

where you can upload a file,

and then instead of

emailing the file,

you just email the link.

And no matter

how large the file is,

people can download it,

and problem solved.

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