Back when I was in Jordan, I visited a music store. They had a big screen on the wall with Windows Explorer open with a huge catalog of .mp3s. You could choose anything and they would burn the CD for you. Everything was clean and tidy as you would expect for a shop in a central location. Made me aware of how much legislators work to protect the rights of those few companies that own the rights.
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I still hate Mega as a cloud service
Everyone saying this is cringe is too much of a bitch/pussy to fight back.
He can be fighting the good fight but still be a cringe edgelord dork
He comes across like a reddit power mod.
calls someone a Jewish clown
Reddit would ban him for that.
This is so cringe, lol
This man legally changed his surname to “Dotcom” I expect nothing less
Kim has always been like the biggest late 90s Edgelord.
Oh the right side though. For now. By accident, i assume.
But on the right side.
Yeah, he literally changed his last name to "dotcom."
Careful, mentioning 90s and edge at the same time might revive Edge Games, who bullied everyone like they owned the word Edge
edging it rn

Wow, what a loser
This has a Freddy vs Jason kinda vibe. Asshole fighting assholes, sorta thing. Love it.
Dotcom is now effectively Musk's hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn't had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he's been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he's isolated and mentally deteriorating.
Down in the deep south near Glenorchy. Isolated even for a New Zealander. Find Queenstown on a map and then follow the shore of the lake Queenstown is on to the west, tada Glenorchy. He lives there
I guess to operate a open internet, we have to allow even the nutcases internet.
"Your Jewish clown", what the fuck?
He's speaking about a previous Prime Minister of NZ. Who's actually secular, but has some Jewish heritage through a grandmother, but was raised Anglican, but really non religious.
Yeah he's really unhinged.
Since it's a Redditor and Redditor information is by default, to be taken with many levels of skepticism. I'm under the impression that this 'criticism' are probably in the form of people telling said Redditor that they're a bullshitter.
I've done a quick search to find an image of this copy and I'm not surprised that I have not found it word for word. The only thing close that I've found was a letter he actually did write to Hollywood, back in 2012
So it's likely that this Redditor, probably hashed up a made-up tweet image because it's a common way to stir up bullshit, like any lowlife Redditor would want to do when they're bored.
Oh and I ran a Google image search on this image and what came up? The Reddit post itself, go figure.
I stand corrected as someone actually pointed to the source.
What's his next stop in Va about? Is he extraditing himself?
Kim dotcom is how I imagine John McAfee if he became a billionaire.
Have you not heard of John McAfee's story?
I briefly met him at Defcon years ago and got an immediate off putting vibe to say the least. Then I saw him get up and tell his unhinged life story which then lead to a pitch for some crypto bullshit. I wish I had saved the 60 or so seconds I spent talking to him.
Something about eating his own dick?
I see him more like the Larry Flynt of file sharing. He's a piece of shit, but he's also fighting for the right side.
This guy was arrested inside his own safe with a gun. He is a lunatic. He is also obviously trying to cash out somehow, even though since 2015 he himself claims to have no ties with Mega anymore and that it has been compromised.
Either way, Mega hasn't been good for piracy for ages, nor is it trust worthy for private data sharing.
In the linked post he writes
Full Disclosure: I'm no longer involved with Mega but it operates lawfully like Megaupload did. The fact that Mega is still online after I founded it 13 years ago shows that the case against Megaupload was political, a total Hollywood overreach and the New Zealand Govt should be ashamed for still wanting to extradite me.
What is this post even? If he's looking for an out he's doing a shit job.
Safe to say he's definitely insane.
Please don't promote that guy.
When a person's words makes then look like an ass, I'm not sure that giving them more exposure is "promoting" them.
Any publicity is good publicity.
You may think it makes him look like an ass, but to an ass he looks like their kind of guy.
Case in point: Donald Ass Trump
I really hate to accept that exposing assy words and behavior just makes it worst, but it's hard to argue with that example.
The way the internet enables awful outliers to find each other and organize really makes one question whether it was ever a good idea.
Kim Schmitz has always been a grifter and an asshole. I wish him all the worst.
He's crazy, and therefore doing more harm than good in advocating for piracy.
posted on the nazi site, too 🫣
"your Jewish clown" kinds says it all
Bragging about how much of your service's traffic is used for Piracy doesn't sound like a smart tactic.
Also,
and I show you how to make billions with piracy
The fuck? Wanna bet it's some hare-brained NFT scheme?
It’s probably something like “deliver a good product or service at a good price and everyone will buy it instead of pirate it”
Hollywood like any other industry is just overwhelmingly greedy. Instead of getting a buck or two from everyone they want to get a hundred bucks from a portion of them…. While screwing basically everyone working on the project and funneling the proceeds into the hands of an extreme minority.
The rent seeking from subscriptions that has all but swallowed whole all media is disgusting. Physical media will be gone soon and we will be left with shitty bitrate renting.
It's not even good for piracy because of the shitty bandwidth limits for users that pop up halfway through downloading something and make you wait until tomorrow or pay.
I fucking hate how many psycho types got into computing
Giving off real "you can't fire me, I quit" vibes lol
If this is on Twitter, then it makes sense. That platform is a cesspool


