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Kim Dotcom Loses His Latest Appeal Against US Extradition
Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Appeal Against US Extradition Kim Dotcom, like John McAfee, is just the gift that keeps on giving in terms of news. Never far from controversy, it seems that the Kim Dotcom story has just gotten an extra chapter. For years, Kim Dotcom has been residing in…
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Kim Dotcom Wins Battle In US Extradition Fight
Kim Dotcom Kim Dotcom is one of those figures in the tech industry who is never far from the headlines. Whether he is building his own internet or suing the Canadian government, the founder of MegaUpload never seems to be far away from controversy. Over the last year though, one…
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Kim Dotcom Launches Bitcoin-Fueled Megaupload 2
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has fulfilled his promise to resurrect his Megaupload cloud storage and file sharing site, and his new iteration is powered by Bitcoin. Dotcom previewed Megaupload 2 yesterday (3rd April), along with its new payment system, dubbed Bitcache, which he claims “will take Bitcoin to the mass…
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Kim Dotcom is Building His Own Internet
Kim Dotcom, the New Zealand-based German web entrepreneur currently awaiting the outcome of a trial to extradite him to the US on charges of piracy, money laundering, and fraud, is full of admirable bluster. While his ambition often outweighs his reach, as evidenced by his previous endeavours Megaupload and Mega…
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega 3.0 Will Be Fully Encrypted and Non-Profit
Kim Dotcom just won’t let it lie. After Megaupload, his first stab at a file-sharing service, was taken down amid a flurry of legal action, which resulted in the German entrepreneur having his assets seized by the US government, Dotcom launched Mega, which offered users free and secure cloud storage.…
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It Might Be Time to Delete Your Mega Account
Controversial German web entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, founder of defunct file sharing site Megaupload, and its sister cloud-sharing service Mega, has warned that Mega has been forced out of his control via a hostile takeover and into the hands of the New Zealand government, via a Chinese businessman wanted for fraud.…
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Siezed Megaupload Domains Hijacked By Scam Ads and Malware
Megaupload domains that were seized by the US Department of Justice, as part of its legal action against company founder Kim Dotcom, have now been hijacked by scammers who are using the domain names to distribute malware and host scam adverts. Megaupload.com and Megavideo.com are now active again after the…
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US Government Seizes Kim Dotcom’s Assets Again
German web entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, as a businessman, politician, and world-ranking FPS player, is like a real-life Buckaroo Banzai. Unlike Banzai, however, Dotcom does not have friends in the United States government which, for the second time, has seized the New Zealand-based MEGA owner’s assets, worth millions of dollars. The…
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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Declares Himself Broke
The founder of seized file-sharing website Megaupload, Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz), has announced that he is “broke”. He claims to have expended £6.4 million in legal costs, defending himself against charges of internet privacy in New Zealand. His defence team, from law firm Simpson Grierson, has now stepped down…
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Kim Dotcom to Get All Megaupload Data Back
The Kim Dotcom Megaupload saga continues to grab headlines two years after the case started! Kim has stuck with his innocence plea ever since the beginning and through a series of police blunders and other events surrounding the initial investigation and raid, Kim will now be getting back everything that was taken.…
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Police Ordered to Hand over Clones of Dotcom’s Data
In what can be described as a small victory for the New Zealand entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in his ongoing legal battle over Megaupload, the New Zealand Court of Appeal ruled that clones of the seized electronic devices should be returned to Dotcom and his co-defendants “as soon as reasonably practicable”. The…
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More Than Ten Million Legal Files Destroyed In Megaupload Raid
Kim Dotcom and the Magaupload saga are well known to us, it was a huge case that saw the site and sites like it being closed down due to their use by many users to share files illegally. Yet for all the good that the U.S. Government did with shutting…
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Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega Director Position To Focus On Other Things
Kim Dotcom has decided to step down from his position as the director of Mega to focus on other things. According to TorrentFreak Kim Dotcom is going to leave his Mega cloud storage company to be run by its current staff and he will instead focus on his new cloud…
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Kim Dotcom Says Megaupload Host “LeaseWeb” Wiped All Data Without Permission
According to Kim Dotcom on Twitter his former host for Megaupload, LeaseWeb, erased all the Megaupload servers and all the data without contacting him, requesting permission or even a warning. Kim Dotcom wrote that: “While EFF is fighting for the rights of Megaupload users in U.S. court, Leaseweb has taken…
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Kim Dotcom Does Interview With Australian News Station
Megaupload Limited was a fairly large website, which provided a single service, cloud storage. Kim Dotcom founded the website in 2005, active for almost seven years before the United States FBI seized the website. But not only that, they froze all his assets, confiscating computers and equipment. It has been…
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