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Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega
In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand.
Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega
Kim refers to raids on both his home in New Zealand and his mother’s in Germany as a “coordinated global strike.”
Kim Dotcom Can Sue The New Zealand Government Over Illegal Spying
It's a big win for Dotcom, especially as he continues to defend Mega as a legal file-sharing service
Is Mega the Second Coming of Megaupload?
Kim Dotcom, the golden boy of file-sharing, has finally released his long-awaited successor to Megaupload. But is it really going to change the internet?
Kim Dotcom's New Venture Sounds Too Good to Be True
Kim Dotcom is effectively very blatantly flipping off authorities by launching a new file-sharing service one year to the minute after an FBI-led investigation into Megaupload culminated in a commando-heavy raid on his New Zealand mansion.
We Talked to the Swedish Pirate Party About America's Infowar
Last week, I reported that Pirate Bay's alleged power failure seemed to be caused by a much more complicated tangle of political happenings. But it's not just Pirate Bay, file-sharing sites are going down left and right, so we thought we'd clear our...
How Hollywood Turned Kim Dotcom Into an Internet Hero
In Hollywood’s unrelenting fight against online piracy, Megaupload creator Kim Dotcom has emerged as an unlikely hero whose story has now become, well, pretty damn Hollywood. Footage of the stunning raid on the piracy kingpin has now been "released by...
TorrentFreak Is Full of Shit, According to a Demonoid Admin
I've been covering the rise of Demonoid since 2009, so when TorrentFreak reported that they were forcibly kicked off the internet, possibly courtesy of the US government, I reached out to one of their admins. I was told that anything TorrentFreak...
Kim Dotcom Wants to Be the Rapping Martin Luther King of Copyright
Kim Dotcom's stayed busy while on house arrest in his $24 million Auckland mansion. The Megaupload founder seems to have developed a newfound passion for the survival of free culture on the Internet and a distinctly critical opinion about President...
The Top Five Most Outrageous Copyright Cases Of All Time
From Shepard Fairey to the Pirates of the Amazon project, here’s the stuff that made us go “Oh no they didn’t!”.
SOPA Who? The Government Has Proven It Doesn't Need Laws to Censor the Internet
A brief look at the recent past suggests that laws granting the power to censor the internet are unnecessary, because the U.S. government already has a far more effective tool: Fear.
The Weirdest Piracy Haven Of Them All: Goodbye For Now, Megaupload
More than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice raid on the New Zealand offices of popular file-sharing service Megaupload, a lot of us are still finding ourselves awe-struck. It's no surprise considering the site, which sports 50 million daily...