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What was that about? Denis Welch explains what really happened in Hobbitgate

In last week's lecture on production I mentioned the Hobbit industrial dispute, but didn't go into a lot of detail because it's a fairly complex issue that we didn't have time to explore adequately.

'Hobbitgate' is still very much with us. The issue re-surfaced last year  when Kim Dotcom released an email purporting to show Warner Bros leveraging the Hobbit deal to secure the extradition of Dotcom to the United States. 

Here are a few links if you'd like to find out more:

"Govt faced intense pressure over Hobbit", RNZ, 26 Feb, 2013

"Hobbit jobs row buried four years on", NZ Herald, 22 Aug, 2014