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Saw this earlier, what do you guys think of this?

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Edit: Redditor deleted the image linked due to criticism, restored as an imgur link.

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[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

I still hate Mega as a cloud service

[–] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works -5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone saying this is cringe is too much of a bitch/pussy to fight back.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 11 points 5 hours ago

He can be fighting the good fight but still be a cringe edgelord dork

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He comes across like a reddit power mod.

[–] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

calls someone a Jewish clown

Reddit would ban him for that.

[–] bobbbu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 15 points 20 hours ago

This man legally changed his surname to “Dotcom” I expect nothing less

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yeah, he literally changed his last name to "dotcom."

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Careful, mentioning 90s and edge at the same time might revive Edge Games, who bullied everyone like they owned the word Edge

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago

Wow, what a loser

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

This has a Freddy vs Jason kinda vibe. Asshole fighting assholes, sorta thing. Love it.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 5 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago

I guess to operate a open internet, we have to allow even the nutcases internet.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 153 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Your Jewish clown", what the fuck?

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 day ago

Yeah he's really unhinged.

[–] fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 110 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kim dotcom is how I imagine John McAfee if he became a billionaire.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have you not heard of John McAfee's story?

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 21 hours ago

Something about eating his own dick?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 110 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is this post even? If he's looking for an out he's doing a shit job.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago

Safe to say he's definitely insane.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please don't promote that guy.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

When a person's words makes then look like an ass, I'm not sure that giving them more exposure is "promoting" them.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He's crazy, and therefore doing more harm than good in advocating for piracy.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

posted on the nazi site, too 🫣

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

"your Jewish clown" kinds says it all

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 day ago

I fucking hate how many psycho types got into computing

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

Giving off real "you can't fire me, I quit" vibes lol

[–] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

If this is on Twitter, then it makes sense. That platform is a cesspool

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