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MEGA file-sharing site open letter to Hollywood from founder Kim Dotcom (lemmy.nz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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[-] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 188 points 8 months ago

"Your Jewish clown", what the fuck?

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 8 months ago

Yeah he's really unhinged.

[-] nfreak@lemmy.ml 68 points 8 months ago

This dude's always been a weird piece of shit so somehow this isn't even that surprising

[-] Munkisquisher 37 points 8 months 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.

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 8 months ago

Antisemites don't actually care about his religion. It's racism. Jewish heritage means Jew, which to them means evil. No Jewish heritage but in their way means secret Jew, which to them means secretly evil.

[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 128 points 8 months ago

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 19 points 8 months 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.

[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 123 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 54 points 8 months ago

Have you not heard of John McAfee's story?

[-] nfreak@lemmy.ml 36 points 8 months ago

A family friend of ours knew the guy. He was even more batshit insane than the stories make him seem.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago

That I believe

[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 months 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.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 18 points 8 months 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.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.org 67 points 8 months ago

Please don't promote that guy.

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[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 8 points 8 months 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

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[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 52 points 8 months ago

He comes across like a reddit power mod.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

calls someone a Jewish clown

Reddit would ban him for that.

[-] sidebro@lemmy.zip 45 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 8 months ago

Safe to say he's definitely insane.

[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 43 points 8 months ago

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 38 points 8 months ago

I fucking hate how many psycho types got into computing

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 8 months ago

Crazy people love to sprinkle in anti semitism in their rants.

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 29 points 8 months ago

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

[-] rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 26 points 8 months ago

that's the best way to put a huge "RAID ME!" sticker infront of your server room

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago

He's already been raided.

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[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 22 points 8 months ago

posted on the nazi site, too 🫣

[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 12 points 8 months ago

"your Jewish clown" kinds says it all

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 8 months ago

Kim Schmitz has always been a grifter and an asshole. I wish him all the worst.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

Wow, what a loser

[-] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

cringe af

[-] ptu@sopuli.xyz 17 points 8 months 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.

[-] blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 8 months ago

What's his next stop in Va about? Is he extraditing himself?

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 12 points 8 months ago

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

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 8 months ago

is this guy still related to mega.co.nz?

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[-] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago

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

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