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Kim Dotcom - piece of shit who makes money on the back of the scene, gets raided for (knowingly) doing so. Somehow the combination of Kim being a piece of shit
by MTWomg 14y ago
Kim Dotcom - piece of shit who makes money on the back of the scene, gets raided for (knowingly) doing so.
Somehow the combination of Kim being a piece of shit (whom no one would want to work for) and the very real possibility of the US Government going after anyone having anything to do with MegaUpload V2 resulted in the new product not being very secure/good. What a surprise.
- illuminate 14y agoI don't think you can blame the US government for Dotcom botching this implementation, though.
- MTWomg 14y agoDotcom was not able to hire quality programmers because few (if any) would work for an illegal enterprise.
- rangibaby 14y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184517
- illuminate 14y agoI find this doubtful. At worst, you can find persons to "consult" to do the job properly, and they can move on to other projects post-launch. Perhaps his negative reputation preceded him, but that was earned long before the US government's involvement with Megaupload. Heck, I hadn't seen anyone express sympathy for his operations ~until~ the US crackdown.
- tnuc 14y agoGoogle makes money from copyright infringing youtube videos and music. Does this make anyone who works for Google a "piece of shit"?
- MTWomg 14y agoYoutube has a legitimate use. Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content, and for Kim Dotcom to make money off it. I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse of the content we released.
- tnuc 14y ago>Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content... You got any evidence? >I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse... Who is the "rest of the scene"?
- MTWomg 14y agoRead the US Government's case. It's pretty clearly laid out. Megaupload employees were even sharing links to user-uploaded pirated content hosted on their servers. Those who release pirated content in a particular way. All non-p2p warez groups.
- hef19898 14y agoThere is no judgement on this case yet. As far as I know people are still considered inocent until they are judged guilty. And that is without going into all the shit that went on during the Megaupload story.
- MTWomg 14y agoThat's fine and all, but the evidence is pretty clear....
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- genwin 14y agoHis niche isn't worse than business-as-usual here in the US.
- MTWomg 14y agoI don't see any normal (Dropbox, etc) cloud storage companies being designed to make hosting pirated content easy and lucrative for them. Believe it or not, most people want to make an honest living.