Welcome to Newsdesk on SiliconANGLE TV for Thursday, November 1st, 2012. I'm Kristen Folletti. Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom is planning a comeback, but will the Department of Justice stop him in his tracks? Join us now with breaking analysis on Kim Dotcom's future in file sharing is Silicon Angle contributing editor John Casaretto. Welcome, John. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom could violate the terms of his bail or face new criminal charges if he launches a new file sharing and storage service as planned, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing last week. John, we've spoke about the Kim Dotcom charges previously on our program. Remind us what the Department of Justice has accused Kim Dotcom of. Well, Kristen, we're coming up on about a year now since the Department of Justice had cracked down on the Mega Upload operation and arrested the owners and had an indictment against them. Basically the charges were for running an organization dedicated to copyright infringement. So a lot of the illegal file sharing and things like that were the kind of things that they were trying to crack down on. Dotcom made claims in early October that he plans to launch a service called Mega. Can you tell us about this new service? What makes Mega different from Mega Upload? Yeah, it's definitely different. The service works in a way that previously you had to install Mega Manager on every computer that you ran Mega Upload from. This is a cloud-based service. So all the data is actually stored in the cloud. They have support for encryption, cross-account folder sharing. So basically the users themselves have got a degree of anonymity and a degree of ability to share files without actually having the files in their hands. And it's also designed in such a way that none of the servers at all are here in the U.S. In a January affidavit given in New Zealand, Dotcom said he has no plans to relaunch Mega Upload or a similar service until the DOJ's case against him is resolved. The Defense Council claims that Dotcom's new plans to launch his Mega service undermine the sworn statements he gave stating that he has no plans or ability to continue to operate or fund the businesses in the indictment during pendency of the extradition process. The question the DOJ is now asking is whether or not Kim Dotcom intentionally misled the court in New Zealand about his intentions and capabilities in order to obtain his release from pre-extradition confinement. What's your take on all of this? Do you think Kim Dotcom planned to rebuild all along? It definitely appears so. He wasted little time in announcing his intention once he was basically released. If he didn't have a plan originally at that point, it didn't take him long to make one. And I think that really the impression is the biggest thing here. It really looks like it didn't take him long to put together the business partners, the service partners, and so on, and the funding to really put this thing together as quickly as he has. So it's fascinating, and that's a great question. And I think that, again, how that looks to the people that are trying to prosecute him and come after him in a legal way, it appears that he definitely has not really kept to his word on that. That was never his intention in the first place. With all the controversy surrounding Kim Dotcom's previous practice, why is he so determined to relaunch a site that could potentially get him into the same kind of legal mess? Well, that's a great question. It was obviously a very profitable business for Kim Dotcom. He's convinced that by avoiding US, avoiding US hosters, the domain, the people that run the domains, the backbone providers, with the secured nature, the cloudified nature of the new service, he can avoid all that trouble that he had previously. So in other words, he made a mistake, he's staying away from the US side of things, and he feels he can just avoid that trouble altogether this time around. Kim Dotcom has confirmed the launch date for MAGA is January 19th, 2013. What dangers does Kim Dotcom face if he follows through with the launch of his new service? Well, it definitely appears that he's dangerously close to violating terms of his bail, or he could be facing new criminal charges. The assurances that he gave, it definitely appears that he's going back on those assurances. And depending on how they take it, whether they wish to pursue it, it really depends. It's going to be very interesting to see what dangers he actually manifest in terms of actual charges and things like that in the near future. Ira Rothkin, a lawyer representing Dotcom and MAGA Upload, says it sounds like the United States is attacking a technology before they fully investigate it. This looks to be the second time they're doing that. Kim Dotcom is innocent, and he's entitled to be involved in technology and business. What do you make of Rothkin's statement? Well, he sounds like a great lawyer. I think that's the other piece of the foundation. What makes Kim Dotcom so confident in the actions that he's taken, the things that he said, is that he's armed himself with a great army and a great lineup of legal people that are giving him advice and apparently are very aware of the various complex and sometimes the gaps in law that he's facing. So I think the statement really indicates more that the lawyer himself has a lot of things in his pocket and a lot of things that he's looking at in terms of that they're confident that Dotcom can run with this business and pretty much stay out of legal trouble. Do you think Kim Dotcom's new venture has the probability for success? Yeah, absolutely. He had a number of popularity in terms of users. He had many users on the service previously. I think that a lot of people will be interested. First off, there's a lot of other providers and services that tried to fill the gap and a few things like that, but I think that what we'll see is a good degree of success initially and as it continues with the encryption and the security, I think that a lot of people will be attracted to using that service in a new way. Let's not forget about Mega Upload's previous users. Right now, federal prosecutors are proposing a process that would make it essentially impossible for former Mega Upload users to recover their data following the government seizure. One Ohio man is actively pursuing a court battle to retrieve data he lost in the Mega Upload mix-up. John, it seems like some users are victims here. Do you think the respective owners of the data will have a shot at recovering what they lost? It's not likely, at least not until it's all over. I don't see that as being something that's going to be a likelihood for them to recover that data. I mean, it could be taken as a sign that they were wrong all along. I don't see them firing up those servers and giving people their data back unless they're looking through hundreds and thousands of accounts and trying to find some of the materials that they feel like they want to find in there and what they feel is illegal. I just don't see that happening. Now should the government fear legal retaliation from some of those users who have lost data? I think that there will be some threats and a few things like that. But again, I think that they'll be very, very adept at taking those things down or just kind of inaction until it's really not as relevant. Who knows what the future holds? But I think that with some legal actions, there could be some, it's a long, long road and it could be a long time before anybody sees any type of movement there. Kim.com is being tried in New Zealand. How do you think this would be handled if you were being tried in the U.S.? Well, there are a number of indictments here from the U.S. So I think that in terms of handling, I'm not so sure he would have been released on any type of agreement for one. It's a bit of speculation, but I think that perhaps we might be looking at a little more aggressive evaluation of what his activities were and a little deeper investigation of some of his connections and things like that. I think it's very telling that Kim.com is focused on avoiding the U.S. altogether in terms of where his servers are running, where the services exist and so on and so forth in terms of the domain and the networks and the backbones, just avoiding that all. He feels he can avoid trouble and I think that he's right and I think that's going to be his biggest threat to his operation long term. As people increasingly store documents in the cloud, do they need to worry about the government's role of protecting intellectual property, which allows them the ability to seize servers and domain names first and worry about the consequences later? Well, I think that governments are starting to become a little more active in terms of securing some of the digital rights and some of the copyright laws and things like that. There is a degree of worry, a heightened worry in terms of what the governments are doing in terms of securing intellectual property and so on. That's on the uptick and it'll probably continue to increase. It's up to the private sector to really fight back on those things and that's just going to be an ongoing struggle. Well, John, thanks so much for your time today. We appreciate you joining us. You're welcome. Thank you for having me. For all the latest in-depth coverage and breaking analysis on tech innovation, keep up to date with News Desk on SiliconANGLE TV.


Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of the People's Health Dispatch. Today we are here with the president of the Turkish Medical Association, Shabdan Korur, and the Turkish Medical Association has been driving a wave of protests and strikes for almost a year now, a bit less than a year, and they have been raising issues related to both salaries but also working conditions and violence in the workplace. So we are here to talk more to Shabdan and to learn more about what's happening with doctors and other health workers in Turkey. Welcome Shabdan. Thank you. Thank you for the invitation actually. And so just to begin with, you know, very recently there has been a new protest and a new strike in Turkey and this was sparked by a recent murder of a cardiologist in central Anatolia. And so of course the Turkish Medical Association, the TMA, has been warning about the rise of violence against health workers for some time. But still we are seeing that, you know, action from the policymakers is missing. So to begin with, can you tell us a bit more about how this problem of violence against health workers became so prominent and also what are some of the solutions that the association you see and would like to see happening? It's a long time since we struggle against this violence at the workplace, particularly the healthcare workers just are subjected to violence and the numbers are escalating recently. When we just check the numbers of white codes, which means that this is a reporting mechanism of violence at the workplace. It was around 17,000 in 2019 and it had dropped to around 11,000 in 2020 because of people to the hospitals and healthcare centers have also dropped around 35% in that period because of the COVID-19 cases. But in 2021, there was a dramatically increased numbers of white codes, which is nearly 30,000. So it has been three times more than the previous year. What is the reason of this escalation of the cases, violence cases? If we ask this question, we have to just consider the health policy of the government for 20 years, actually, because there was a so-called revolution in the health policy according to the government, AKP government, but it was actually unfortunately a deterioration of the healthcare system in the country because they have just ignored preventive healthcare systems and just shifted all the general practitioners as family physicians while they were just appointed on contract phases. And without the regional coverage of these family physicians to their region where they just work in the region, they can have some patients or people from different cities, for example. And if it is not regionally based, then you can't have a preventive medicine practice in that region properly. And also while they are just appointed in a contract basis, also they do not have other healthcare professionals who have to work with them. Either they have to hire some healthcare professionals themselves or they have to be alone. But preventive medicine means a work of a team with social workers, nurses, midwives, and the environmental technicians, etc. But there is no system in this context. So without any preventive healthcare system, then all the people were forwarded to the hospitals, to the second step of the healthcare system. And then there are too many people just being admitted to the hospitals while some of these people, actually most of these people tend to use the emergency departments. Last year the numbers is more than 120 million applications to these emergency departments. It is nonsense. More than the population of the country needs emergency healthcare. It is not the truth, of course, but people use these emergency departments as outpatient clinics actually. So we have to keep in mind that they in a way provoked a demand for healthcare system. I wouldn't call this a solicitation, a milder word for this. This is a provocation. So with this provocation, people, when they cannot find a solution for their healthcare problems, then meet with the healthcare professionals in front of them. They do not consider the Ministry of Health, they do not consider the health authorities and the political authorities of the country. But they just feel the anger against the healthcare professionals against the physicians, unfortunately. Then the violence escalates in this kind of a healthcare system. So this is the problem of the healthcare system in the country, which they have called a revolution, but it was a deterioration of the system actually. And we have to keep in mind that we cannot prevent violence with some security measures, actually. We have to just think broader than security measures, broader than some legal reforms or amendments in the law. So there are serious problems. We have to change the health policies. We have to just prioritize the preventive healthcare and build preventive healthcare centers with a big team preventing illnesses and protecting environments. So in order to prevent people to be ill at the end. And of course, the violence is not the only problem that the health workers are facing right now. The Turkish Medical Association actually has been organizing quite so it has organized a number of strikes and number of protests since 2021. And this is also related to the very low salaries that you are seeing in the health sector, but also to the inflation that we know that the country has been going through. So could you tell us a bit more about how working conditions in the sector are currently looking like and what is the medical association actually pushing to do? Unfortunately the workload is also increasing in the last years because of this provocation of demand for healthcare system. And this workload in a way was just accepted by the healthcare professionals because their low salaries were compensated by performance payments. But these performance payments were unstable. And they never knew whether they would just earn the same amount on the upcoming months or so. So this obscure situation was the reason of anxiety for the healthcare professionals. And also they considered the situation, the workload as they are being devaluated in the system. This was probably the target of the government to devaluate the healthcare professionals. Instead of being the subjects of the healthcare system, just providing healthcare to people and having the rights, then when they devaluate the health professionals, they are just turned to objects without any rights at all, even without being called human being cinema. So in this context, with the salaries lowering all the time and the inflation just rising constantly, they just became poor and poor in those years. And of course this situation, hardworking and also very qualitative healthcare providing didn't make them earn more in the system. They had to just have the quality in front of quality because of the performance payments. Then they were unhappy. They were too tired. They were worried about their future. And this caused a burnout for all the healthcare professionals at the end. And we had to just struggle for our rights as a medical association, as a professional organization. But of course, struggling for the rights cannot be alone for the professional organization. So we just joined forces with all the unions and all professional organizations of the unhealth care system, with nurses, with dentists, with veterinary physicians, etc. And all these groups also joined to this struggle. And we had several different types of protests. For example, marching from Istanbul to Ankara, stopping every few cities and protesting there, having demonstrations, and also trying to make the public join us. Because they also had a serious problem of access to healthcare. Because of this burnout physicians, for example, physicians either resign or try to travel abroad for better conditions. So in many cities, there are lack of some specialties. We do not have hand surgeons in some cities. For example, the pathology department of a city is closed because there is no body in that department. So this means that we have to raise our voice and make it heard by the authorities. Is it hurt a bit? Because they have to at least promise that they will just promote the situation. But we didn't see any result yet. So we continue to struggle. And we are decided to continue the struggle till we can have all our rights. But it is not easy, we know, because the health policy has to change. The health care system has to be changed. And also the economic system had to be changed at the end. You also mentioned something that I wanted to ask for the end, actually referring to the many health workers who have been living Turkey because of the worsening conditions in the health sector. And I believe that the latest number that you came out with was more than 700 physicians living Turkey in 2022 alone.  And I just wanted to ask, is there any site of this trend ending or being stopped by some something happening in the health system? Not at all. And the number was 1171 at the end of June. So the first half is more than 1000. It was 1405 in 2021. So this trend would not end. It is not only the health care professionals, it is not only the physicians, actually well educated people try to leave the country because they consider that they are devaluated. This is the problem. Educated people are devaluated by the government. And many people are criminalized by the government. Particularly the health care workers, health care professionals are criminalized recently together with their professional organizations and unions. Because we struggle for our rights, which is a common situation. How can we just sit silently and accept our fate? This is not a fate. This is the policy that they force us just to accommodate ourselves, but we cannot accommodate ourselves with such kind of slavery conditions. So many physicians try to leave the country, but not only this situation. Also, just recently the results of the university entrance examinations have been announced. And I can see on the social media that many of the physicians ask these young people not to choose medical faculties because the conditions are so harsh for them. So they are not only living, but also we are not sure about our future, whether people would like to be physicians or not. Even if being a physician is taking care of another person before yourself, it is not an easy situation if you are also devaluated for just sacrificing your life, sacrificing your ambitions for working in a condition which working is too hard, too long, and without any payment for your work, for your labor. So the situation for the future is not so enlightening and bright at all. Thank you for sharing that. And of course, we at the People's Health Dispatch will continue to follow the work of the Turkish Medical Association. And we do hope that the actions that you do will get so much traction that actually the government is pushed to act. And thank you for being our voice and also hope we will talk on how the improvements are just moving forward.


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