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Kim Dotcom
- ari_elle 14y agoAll that i can say to this post is "?"
- Zombieball 14y agoNot sure who Kim Dotcom is?
- ari_elle 14y agoNot sure why an entry called "Kim Dotcom" linking to kim.com - a site that most that are interested in the Megaupload case already know and have visited numerous time - has to be on this site. Nothing even has changed - i found no new information about anything on his site except maybe a new video (and i wasn't on it for at least a few weeks). So i don't get it. I am surprised by the number of comments and up-votes for this imo completely worthless HN entry
- hermanhermitage 14y agoWorthless? Matters of international law are at stake. I've sat and watched USA ring fence "illegal" online gambling, in a massive display of protectionism. I've sat and watched Guantanamo bay. I've sat and watched the Weapons of Mass Destruction debacle. I've sat and watch Disney steal from the public domain and ring fence. I've sat and watched USA Juries corruptly favour USA companies in patent trials. Enough is enough.
- fusiongyro 14y agoAll of that can be true, and this site still be worthless self-promotion.
- hermanhermitage 14y agoI followed and watched the youtube video links and gleaned a greater understanding than I had before. I dont doubt the site is in Kim's 'enlightened self interest' as Aldous Huxley or Alexis de Tocqueville would say. But I found it useful to absorb the information and ruminate.
- ari_elle 14y agoomfg... Following Weapons of Mass Destruction debacle == kim.com site linked on HN, while not conaining any new information and consisting of music videos and self promotion...?? And i didn't call case information about megaupload "worthless", i called this entry "worthless" (no new material, site is already well known, probably not the first time it has appeared here et cetera...) Get a hold of yourself!
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- Dragonai 14y agoThis site is screaming at my face.
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- ryanpers 14y agoMY NEW HERO
- enr 14y agothose three letter .com addresses are sexy.
- creativityhurts 14y agoI wonder how much he paid for that.
- true_religion 14y agoConsidering the page is 'powered' by Instra.com, a domain sales site, I bet you he paid $0 for it and has an arrangement to use it in exchange for the publicity that it will give them.
- nikcub 14y agoFrom his profile in Wired this month[0]: > The rights to the Kim.com domain cost a small fortune, but it was worth it. [0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/ff-kim-dotcom/all/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/ff-kim-dotcom/all/
- w1ntermute 14y agoNo matter what people say about the legality/morality of his businesses, I love this guy's oversized personality. He's one of those guys that keeps things interesting on the internet.
- nicholassmith 14y agoYou need the characters to make it a richer story, he's definitely a character.
- oz 14y agoIndeed. The libertarian in me rejoices at the 'one man against the world' dynamic of his story.
- kahawe 14y agoSo you love people who since the 90s have been repeatedly caught and found guilty of fraud, insider trading, piracy and who cut deals with the police by turning in former friends and associates? This is the side of kim people seem to have collectively forgotten over the last 10 or so years in which he has disappeared and was making tons of money from mu. This is nothing but the same stunt yet again.
- mattparlane 14y agoThe only reason he doesn't like copyright law is because it stands in the way of him living the life he wants. This guy absolutely disgusts me -- he doesn't give a shit about free speech, he just wants to live in his enormous mansion and eat far too much food and drive expensive cars and show off his trophy wife.
- mibbitier 14y agoThe case has big implications for any site that hosts user generated content. If users start using say github, to share movies, will the github founders be whisked away to jail and the site shut down without any due process?
- aw3c2 14y agothe difference is that everyone knows that Github is for free software whereas everyone knows that Megaupload was for copyright infringement.
- vidarh 14y agoGee, I'm happy "everyone knows" is a suitable replacement for due process. That will certainly streamline the legal system.
- aes256 14y agoIn all seriousness, the law enforcement agencies concerned may have stuffed up the process, but there was a solid case against Dotcom and his associates, and everyone did indeed know Megaupload was synonymous with copyright infringement.
- klibertp 14y agoThis is what "everybody knows": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG5e1oaen-M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG5e1oaen-M :P
- neotek 14y ago
- marban 14y agonot as jaw-dropping as the good old kimble.org but still. anyone who remembers it?
- terhechte 14y agoYeah, I remember it. Back then I was impressed. I knew Flash, but he really put it to the job. Though that impression didn't last long I've to admit.
- rsingla 14y agoI'm not sure this ought to be on HN. To me, it just seems like a guy's throwing a hissy fit. Publicly.
- ari_elle 14y ago+1 (that was exactly why i instantly wrote the comment All that i can say to this post is "?". I don't know for sure, but i can't imagine that this is the first time for his site to be here and there is no valuable information at all that could be considered new...)
- michaelkscott 14y agoWell, you can always use your flagging powers.
- dangrossman 14y agoHe, and most other HN users, have no flag button. That has a high karma threshold.
- jagermo 14y agoI recommend his entry at attrition. This guy is a charlatan, always has been. http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/ http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/ For those with German skills here are some of his posts at the de.org.ccc Usenet http://nopaste.me/paste/1978187886501000e66203f http://nopaste.me/paste/1978187886501000e66203f
- witoldc 14y agoI remember the first time I learned of Kim - 10+ years ago. From the early days, his questionable 'projects', his legal troubles back home, his money making schemes, him defrauding people on BMW M5 forums, etc. Then I didn't hear about him for 10 years. When his name came out during the Megaupload uproar, I immediately remembered his name and his antics and without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record.
- neotek 14y ago>without knowing anything about Megaupload I knew he was guilty as sin just based on his record. What a frightening way to think.
- fusiongyro 14y agoAgreed, but while people can change, they usually don't. Doesn't justify what governments have done to him though.
- witoldc 14y agoI judge people based on their past actions. Not on their hypothetical potential. Kim has a history of fraud and questionable activities going back _decades_. If that makes my way of thinking frightening to you, so be it.
- buro9 14y agoPeople are oddly repetitive, and most tend to show the same character in the future that they've shown in the past. That much is true. But to take that notion and to say that all people will always repeat their past... that isn't true. For whatever percent of people that would repeat their past, there remains at least a few that will learn from their past and change their future behaviour. What is scary is that what you've expressed does not allow for rehabilitation or for people to learn from their past. What you've expressed is a view that once someone has been judged, then that leopard cannot change it's spots. Taking your view to the logical conclusion: Experience counts for nothing, as no-one can learn from it. Teaching counts for nothing, as no-one can learn from it. Here we are on HN, where one of the mantras repeated over and over is test and pivot. Try something, find you're wrong, learn from it, seek a different direction. To learn from failure what not to do in the future. Your moral philosophy is that personal change and improvement is impossible as the leopard cannot change it's spots. This precludes from the outset any chance for social mobility, any chance of rehabilitation, any chance of humanity learning from our own history. It is indeed a scary thought.
- emmapersky 14y agoThis is bizarre. Why is this aimed so squarely at "Mr President" - The Obama Administration was anti SOPA, whereas the republican senate was behind it. Sure, the reality is probably more subtle than this, but if you must pick a single entity, the Republican Senate seems like a better target. Less sexy I guess.
- emmapersky 14y agoI'm even more confused having spent 20 minutes consuming the bizarro content on this site. This appears to be an anti-obama website though he isn't making it directly clear. Sure, we should question our elected officials, and hold them against the standards on which they were elected (Change in Obama's case), and that's what he seems to be doing in the first section. I'm just not sure why he is taking some of the goodwill he might have built up and directing it at Obama. I might be wrong, but I suspect he would be much worse off under a Romney Administration.
- creativityland 14y agohttp://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-joe-biden-ordered-the-megaupload-shutdown-120703/ http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-joe-biden-ordered-the-meg... http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-mpaa-riaa-corrupted-the-u-s-government-120814/ http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-mpaa-riaa-corrupted-the-u...
- wildgift 14y agoLogic and politics don't often go together, at least on the surface. Behind the scenes, there's a logic.
- illuminate 14y agoYou're assuming logic. He's trying to stir up attention for his personal brand, and his associated products. I don't think he necessarily believes that Obama/Biden had anything direct to do with the action, but playing up that angle gets him tons of PR.
- rorrr 14y ago> whereas the republican senate was behind it SOPA had 19 republican sponsors and supporters 35 democratic sponsors and supporters https://projects.propublica.org/sopa/ https://projects.propublica.org/sopa/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who_support_or_oppose_SOPA/PIPA#SOPA_Sponsors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who...
- antsam 14y agoKim needs to put out an album already.
- ari_elle 14y agoYeah, because it's exactly the -) create a simple beat with maybe a slight variation when the chorus comes up, which takes 1 minute with todays software -) fix missing singing talent through studio production / auto-tune / hearing exact singing line in headphones / professional software -) don't think complicated: 4/4, some simple musical hooklines, lyrics about some stupid ass shit popchart garbage that most of the world listens to. Kim's music videos are exactly the prove (if we would need any :/) that today's music is solely about producing, not about self expression, nice rhythmical designs, creativity or art in general...
- antsam 14y agoI wish I could have marked my comment as sarcasm. (Kim is a terrible singer and approaching Trump levels of annoying)
- Nux 14y agoMeh, can't see his new site. What's wrong with latest Firefox ESR? The website doesn't look like too advanced (from what I can see in Opera), just a bunch of embeds. He should declare war on retarded web designers as well. http://img.nux.ro/3jF-kim.com.png http://img.nux.ro/3jF-kim.com.png
- mhd 14y agoQuite fitting, he seems to have an ego that would require Roland Emmerichs' most widescreen lens setup.
- Metapony 14y agoWow, someone pooped out a website.
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- digitalengineer 14y agoRegardless of what you might think of Kim, his personality, his wealth fact is the US administration broke it's own (and international) law to take him out. The administrations' style is one of intimidation and aggression. Laws are for regular people it seems. Kim was left without access to his own funds / video-footage / hardware so he would not be able to set up an effective defense. This entire ordeal tells us more about the current administration than Kim.
- lostlogin 14y agoPlease don't spare the New Zealand government. It is shameful how far politicians and police here went out of their way to try and impress. Pathetic, weak and disgusting. We have laws too, and a fair few were broken by NZ agencies.
- beedogs 14y agoThis seems to be the case for any country when faced with US pressure over copyright issues, whether it's agreeing to one-sided treaties which serve only to protect US content owners, or working with US agencies to track down and apprehend "criminal" infringers anywhere they happen to be in the world. Everyone just does what America asks of them. It's shocking.
- digitalengineer 14y agoCorrect. Anyone remember the time the US drafted the "The Netherlands / The Hague invasion plan"? Target of invasion? The International Criminal Court, if America of US soldiers were ever brought before trial for war-crimes. Seems International means non-us. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...
- beedogs 14y agoHell, they overthrew the elected Prime Minister of Australia because he abolished the military draft, pulled Australian troops out of Vietnam, and was threatening to forbid the renewal of the lease for a US military base. The right to self-determination is really only something America enjoys. When it needs to, it imposes its will upon other countries, often in the most cruel and twisted possible way.
- ecliptic 14y agoI think Kim knows he is a joke, too bad HN readers don't.
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- kahawe 14y agoThis is just like his old kimble.org page... big words and I promise you: nothing remotely justifying it actually behind it. He has been trolling JUST like this in the 90s and looks like he is using his current publicity to do the same now. In the end it is ALL about making money for him and it always has been. He has been doing the same "business" back in the 90s and famously turned over former associates to the police to cut deals.
- littlebopper 14y agoDid you listen to Kim's music. It is an interesting combination of Rebecca Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 and Justin B. I like it. My life is precious. I get to choose who I am. Words to live by. I wonder why he isn't getting more attention for his music...
- augusto_hp 14y agoI miss GlaDOS, anyone else?
- rbn 14y agoThis guy is the biggest phoney ever. He made his fortune from piracy. I'm all for freedom and justice but don't pretend you are some saint.
- brador 14y agoIsn't taking from the rich and giving to the poor a key activity of a saint? I may or may not agree with the guys views, or activities, but he has helped a lot of poor people consume a lot of media they would not otherwise have had access to.
- Jgrubb 14y agoWith all respect, a) I don't think that truly poor people have the means to be spending their time "consuming media". That definitely falls at least close to "first world problem". b) Despite the RIAA, which is an organization that deserves every bit of the scorn it gets, piracy mainly hurts artists, writers, and other "content creators". Creatives like me and a lot of other people on here. The suits that the RIAA really represents have plenty of other means to feed themselves. I don't know how this guy made his money, but he ain't no saint.
- nitrogen 14y agoWith respect, I'm glad you're not the sole arbiter of who's poor enough to deserve sympathy.
- drharris 14y agoThis is an elitist view of the world. In what universe does a rich person deserve to consume media at greater rates than poor people? Or because they're poor, must they spend all 16 waking hours trying to work for food, no time to consume such media? Or because they're poor, they shouldn't be able to afford the arbitrarily-set prices of said media? Or because they're poor, we simply don't care about what they can do or not do?
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- jagermo 14y agothe worst thing about this whole megaupload fubar is that Mr Schmitz gets airtime again. I had hoped that he would have disappeared for good. He was an annoying fake back when he only operated in Germany and didn't get any better over the years.