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Don't know much about his negative traits? He was convicted (on separate occasions years apart) of computer fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, and data espi
by PostOnce 14y ago
Don't know much about his negative traits?
He was convicted (on separate occasions years apart) of computer fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, and data espionage (carding/etc). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigati...
I particularly don't like Kim because I find him a walking insult to honest entrepreneurs. Getting rich off of other peoples' work (Megaupload) is shameful, and while everyone else is out there working hard trying to make it legitimately (and often failing), this guy is out there getting rich off of theft, dishonesty, and outright criminal action, and being treated as some kind of hero for it.
I don't like the way the investigation has been handled, but that doesn't make Kim a good guy.
- nikcub 14y agoIn your mind how do you distinguish Megaupload and Youtube?
- res0nat0r 14y agoBecause youtubes primary purpose for existing doesn't depend on copyright infringement. MU was raided because of their alleged blatant infringement and non DMCA good faith compliance.
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- nikcub 14y agoI suggest you read the evidence in Viacom vs YouTube, their founders admitted as much in internal emails that most of the early traffic was copyright material. http://www.fastcompany.com/1588353/steal-it-and-other-internal-youtube-emails-viacoms-copyright-suit http://www.fastcompany.com/1588353/steal-it-and-other-intern... The real answer to my hypothetical question is that there is no difference. One just happens to be run by a German hacker while the other by upstanding citizens of Silicon Valley. One beat a civil lawsuit while the other has the full force of the US government trying to lock him up for life with a criminal conspiracy case (a bullshit law used to catch mafia figures).
- CrankyPants 14y agoYeah. The scuttlebutt at Google when YouTube was purchased was, "great, but what about when we have to take most of its content down for violating copyright?"
- thomasz 14y agoKim is not a hacker. At least he wasn't when the media declared him one, as he had never written a single line of code. Maybe he learned something since then, but I doubt that. His talents lie elsewhere. He was very good at deception - he somehow convinced a journalist that he was able to hack a GSM phone for example. Or convincing mobsters to invest in his pump and dump schemes. If you understand German, you can follow some of his interactions with the German hacking crowd at http://arnold.babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt http://arnold.babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt. It's not pretty.
- res0nat0r 14y agoYoutube isn't under indictment because they are complying with DMCA takedown requests in good faith. MU was not.
- kamaal 14y ago>>Because youtubes primary purpose for existing doesn't depend on copyright infringement. If the copyright content is taken off YouTube, their business will fall like a pack of cards. I go there for free entertainment. And guess how most of it and what kind is served there.
- kamaal 14y agoGoogle is like US government. There are only two rules that apply to them. 1) They don't have to do the right things, but instead what they do is termed as right. 2)If you argue against it, you are against innovation and those thousands of engineers are great because they have memorized a thousand algorithms from the book. And tend mix up only with the same kind.
- cwp 14y agoSo, you're saying that you don't distinguish between MegaUpload and YouTube. I commend your consistency.