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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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[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 187 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"Your Jewish clown", what the fuck?

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 1 month ago

Yeah he's really unhinged.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 135 points 1 month 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 19 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Have you not heard of John McAfee's story?

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 1 month ago

That I believe

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month 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 1 month 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.

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

His origin story is selling out his costumer base to a law offices and kicking of the mass persecution of small time pirates in Germany.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 67 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Please don't promote that guy.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 month 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 28 points 1 month ago

Safe to say he's definitely insane.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He comes across like a reddit power mod.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 month ago

I fucking hate how many psycho types got into computing

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 43 points 1 month ago
[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 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 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Very interesting that he points out that a guy is Jewish, does not give good vibes. Ofc most of the things he's done don't give me good vibes either.

Anyway, I can't remember the last time I've used Mega, for anything. None of the cool sites use them, afaik. There's like a million better sites now, and the best stuff is in Russia, since they barely touch piracy sites. it's so often in a piracy sites lifecycle for them to start on a normal tld, get banned, move to a weird tld, get banned, then move to a cool foreign countries tld.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

Definitely seems like an antisemitic jab, and yeah he way overestimates how much pirates use and care about Mega in this day and age.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Not surprising from a guy who bought a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

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

[–] rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago
[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

posted on the nazi site, too 🫣

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

"your Jewish clown" kinds says it all

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago

Wow, what a loser

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

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

i don't know anything about this guy other than some big headlines a while ago about how some chode legally changed his name to "dotcom," which is...unbelievably fucking stupid. i get the feeling he was trying to be intimidating in this tweet on fucking twitter, but he's not. i don't really see this douchenozzle "humiliating" anyone. except maybe himself

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Lol he must really be fucked.

[–] hexagonwin 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] etsy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

mf thinks they're an anime villain or sumn

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