Low key; Kim Dotcom of Megaupload should have ZERO regrets

[Dr.HannibalLecter]

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[MMS]

 

[Coach Gully]

Living that good life..

Damn I hope Megaupload comes back, all these other websites are wack as shyt.

 

[Malta]

How could you hate on Kim? Dude put food on our table, pay your respects!

 

[Rain]

Living that good life..

Damn I hope Megaupload comes back, all these other websites are wack as shyt.

So true

 

[MMS]

How could you hate on Kim? Dude put food on our table, pay your respects!

me? download fast? download at all? ive had less than 5mbs connection for like 4 years up until recently

let that slob get his back blown out in prison

 

[Malta]

me? download fast? download at all? ive had less than 5mbs connection for like 4 years up until recently

let that slob get his back blown out in prison

 

[The_Sheff]

How long did he live like that though, the site started in 2005. 7 years of balling aint worth 20 years of your life behind bars and then going back to nothing. Is he still going to have money when he gets out? Max i would give up is 5 years.

 

[Dr.HannibalLecter]

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[Non Sequitur]

He was the white Big Meech.

 

[Rominati]

Paying repsect.

He made sure we all ate. Everybody eats b. Everyone had food on the table off megaupload

 

[MikelArteta]

How long did he live like that though, the site started in 2005. 7 years of balling aint worth 20 years of your life behind bars and then going back to nothing. Is he still going to have money when he gets out? Max i would give up is 5 years.

In 2001, Dotcom purchased €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.[27] Unknown to others, Dotcom did not have the funds available to invest, although the announcement caused the share value of LetsBuyIt.com to jump by nearly 300%.[28] Dotcom sold his shares a few days later for €1.568 million.

 

[NSSVO]

He got snatched because of the music distrub. market he was going to open.

 

[The_Sheff]

In 2001, Dotcom purchased €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.[27] Unknown to others, Dotcom did not have the funds available to invest, although the announcement caused the share value of LetsBuyIt.com to jump by nearly 300%.[28] Dotcom sold his shares a few days later for €1.568 million.

The hell he get damn near $500k from to purchase those initial shares? Seems like this guy was rich from the jump.

 

[Kodie]

The hell he get damn near $500k from to purchase those initial shares? Seems like this guy was rich from the jump.

He's been a digital grifter for a long time. I'll see if I can find an article somewhere.

EDIT: from wiki-

Early career

As a teenager, Dotcom became known in his native Germany for claims to have cracked corporate PBX systems in the United States, and tried to parlay it into a career in data security.[15] That effort led to his arrest on charges of using and selling stolen calling card numbers.[16][17] In 1994, Dotcom founded a computer security company called DataProtect.[18] In 1999, DataProtect and IVM engineering presented the "Megacar", a Brabus-tuned Mercedes-Benz S-Class W220 which, among other features, had a Windows NT server, a 17.3" SGI flat panel display and combined 16 GSM modules to provide mobile broadband Internet access.[19]
In 1998, Dotcom was convicted of computer fraud and handling stolen goods, and sentenced to two years of prison on probation.[20] According to a report by News & Record, he had traded stolen calling card numbers he bought from hackers in the United States.[21] He achieved early notoriety by being the subject of an advanced-for-its-time flash animation video called Kimble Special Agent.[22] The name is a reference to Richard Kimble, the main character of the television series The Fugitive.[23]
Dotcom later sold 80% of the shares of DataProtect to TÜV Rheinland in 2000, during the dot-com bubble. The former went bankrupt at the time of the subsequent market crash in 2001.[24][25]
He is known for his large frame, as he is 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall and weighs more than 130 kilograms (290 lb).[26]


Insider trading and embezzlement

In 2001, Dotcom purchased €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company.[27] Unknown to others, Dotcom did not have the funds available to invest, although the announcement caused the share value of LetsBuyIt.com to jump by nearly 300%.[28] Dotcom sold his shares a few days later for €1.568 million.[27]
Dotcom had also arranged and obtained an unsecured loan of €280,000 from Monkey AG, a company for which Dotcom had served as Chairman of the Board. The funds were to be paid to Kimvestor AG. As a result, both Monkey and Kimvestor went bankrupt. Dotcom expressed remorse, stating that he had been "dazzled" and had not recognized that he would be unable to repay the loans.[29]
In January 2002, Dotcom was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, deported to Germany, and subsequently sentenced to a probationary sentence of one year and eight months, and a €100,000 fine, the largest insider-trading case in Germany at the time.[30] Dotcom also pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and received a two-year probation sentence.[31]

All before 2005 and Megaupload. Dude's always been a criminal and he deserves some real jail time for once