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Nice! For those that don't know, Kim Schmitz / Kimble(now Dotcom), sold out his fellow warez peers to the copyright lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth. Like
by junto 11y ago
Nice! For those that don't know, Kim Schmitz / Kimble(now Dotcom), sold out his fellow warez peers to the copyright lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth. Like the wild West he was supposedly paid per head.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/where-kim-dotcom-got-his-start-the-house-of-coolness/#2c0ff577c134 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/where-k...
Not mentioned in the article is his involvement in the AT&T calling card fraud conspiracy (estimated losses $20 million) in the early '90's. It is that case that put him on the US Secret Service's radar and he's been on it ever since.
- DyslexicAtheist 11y agonot to mention having made most of his cash with insider trading in Germany.
- Kristine1975 11y agoWhich wasn't illegal at that point, though.
- DyslexicAtheist 11y agoyepp indeed. that just made me think ... a lot of things weren't ... such as bribing gov officials when participating in tenders (example Siemens and others learned the hard way). Lot of things seemed to have become illegal in Germany just over the past 20 years. Now they're even trying to curb our creativity when writing software for exhaust emmissions test /s
- bascule 11y agoSee also his Security Charlatans page on Attrition.org: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/ http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/