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I'm a pretty savvy internet user, and I'll confess to having used Mega for the odd video when nothing else was working, but I've never heard much about Kim befo
by Cushman 14y ago
I'm a pretty savvy internet user, and I'll confess to having used Mega for the odd video when nothing else was working, but I've never heard much about Kim before this case. Now he's a folk hero. Considering the weakness of Mega's position, this case couldn't have gone much worse for the copyright industry.
- stesch 14y agoPeople from Germany have heard a lot from him and we can't understand why anybody would think he is a hero or some innocent victim.
- vecinu 14y agoI believe only people ignorant of his attitude or past can consider him anything close to a 'hero'.
- Cushman 14y agoOh, I don't doubt he's earned the bad reputation-- just goes to highlight the degree to which they bungled the arrest and prosecution.
- redthrowaway 14y agoThe enemy of my enemy... K.C's appeal comes from the fact that he quite rightly criticizes the incompetent and heavy-handed actions of some very unlikeable people - DC insiders and lobbyists. His portrayal of events is, if perhaps exaggerated, certainly plausible and more possessing of verisimilitude than the official party line. As with Assange his appeal comes, not from a reasoned appraisal of the totality of his person, but rather from a shared dislike of his powerful enemies.
- ArcticCelt 14y agoWhat's impressive is that he went from relative obscurity to been known not only from the startup crowd like here but also from the more mainstream tech crowd that populate sites like reddit. They maybe managed to shutdown and destroy his business but they also involuntarily made sure that his next business venture will have an enormous amount of free publicity by been talked about on all tech blogs and social news web sites.
- davidw 14y agoWell, if their case did go the way they wanted, his next venture may be selling smokes to the other inmates.