MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom.
(Credit: Screen shot by Greg Sandoval/CNET)
The film industry are laughing at allegations made by Kim DotCom, the founder of accused pirate site MegaUpload, that they gathered last June in Washington to discuss MegaUpload with Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States.
In an interview with TorrentFreak on Tuesday, DotCom produced White House records that showed some of the chiefs of the six largest film studios, including Brad Grey, CEO Paramount Pictures, and Ron Meyer of Universal Studios, met with Biden at the White House on July 27 2011. He noted that also in attendance was Mike Ellis, an executive with the Motion Picture Association of America's division in Asia, who DotCom claimed was an extradition expert.
DotCom told TorrentFreak that they discussed MegaUpload during the gathering. DotCom also said that it was the vice president that ordered the police assault and arrest of DotCom in January. DotCom, born Kim Schmitz, operated MegaUpload, a cloud-storage service until the site was shut down by the U.S. government and he was thrown into jail. The United States accused him of copyright violations and related crimes and is trying to extradite him from New Zealand where he lives.
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