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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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[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

I was wondering what that part was all about…

[–] bobbbu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 4 days ago (5 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.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago

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

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 182 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"Your Jewish clown", what the fuck?

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 5 days ago

Yeah he's really unhinged.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 68 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 37 points 4 days 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.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 6 points 2 days 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.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 days 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.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He comes across like a reddit power mod.

[–] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

calls someone a Jewish clown

Reddit would ban him for that.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 133 points 5 days 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 18 points 4 days 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 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Have you not heard of John McAfee's story?

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 36 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

That I believe

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days 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 4 days 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.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago

He's already been raided.

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 67 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Please don't promote that guy.

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[–] fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 42 points 4 days ago (3 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.

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[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 51 points 4 days 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 29 points 4 days ago

Safe to say he's definitely insane.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago

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

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 44 points 5 days ago

I fucking hate how many psycho types got into computing

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 days ago

Wow, what a loser

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 18 points 4 days 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.

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

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

posted on the nazi site, too 🫣

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago

"your Jewish clown" kinds says it all

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

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago
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