Meet Kim Dotcom


- Creator of Megaupload and Mega
- Teenage hacker turned entrepreneur
- Built multiple online businesses as a teenager
- Owned supercars and a luxury mansion in his 20s
- Once ranked among the top players on Call of Duty leaderboards
- Hosted all kinds of personal files, movies, music, software
- At his peak, approximately 50 million daily users
- Accounted for about 4% of global internet traffic
- Generated over $175 million in revenue
- Authorities claimed he caused over $500 million in copyright losses
- The FBI raided his mansion in New Zealand
- Was arrested on his own birthday
- With helicopters, armed police, dogs
- Servers were seized worldwide
- Megaupload was shut down immediately
- Millions of users lost access to their files
After the shutdown, launched Mega
Has been fighting extradition to the U.S. for over a decade
KimDotcom
Often described by his followers as a “freedom fighter on the internet”
Absolute Legend 🐐🔥
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