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He's a career criminal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigati... And he
by benologist 12y ago
He's a career criminal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Criminal_investigati...
And he sold out a bunch of his colleagues:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/where-kim-dotcom-got-his-start-the-house-of-coolness/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/where-k...
The controversy around House of Coolness went beyond selling
access to a site that largely hosted other people's intellectual
property. Around 1993, House of Coolness was targeted by Günter
Freiherr von Gravenreuth, a German lawyer who made a career of
suing copyright infringers. But rather than face legal attacks
from Gravenreuth, associates of Schmitz tell me he instead began
supplying Gravenreuth with names of other figures in the bulletin
board scene involved with pirated content. According to the journalist
Lars Sobiraj of the German tech news site Gulli.com, Schmitz was
allegedly paid for every pirate bust he helped to facilitate. His
cooperation with Gravenreuth was also mentioned in a 1997 lecture at
a conference of the German hacker Chaos Computer Club by the group’s
former spokesperson Andy Muhler-Maguhn, who labelled him an "agent
provocateur" not to be trusted.
- hobs 12y agoIsnt he now bankrupt though?
- benologist 12y agoHis assets were frozen during his most recent criminal investigation.
- akshatpradhan 12y agoFrom your links, Kim Dotcom's "criminal career" seems to involve the Entertainment Industry like the RIAA and MPAA. Those organizations are questionable themselves. Best to be even handed about it and put those organizations on the same list as Kim Dotcom and Bill Gates.
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- benologist 12y agoThe links mention 4 convictions that have nothing to do with the MPAA/RIAA/Mega.