Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Terr_ 3442 days ago
Yet another investment scam from a lifetime fraudster. Isn't he due to change his last name again?

Hopefully his undeserved Robin-Hood glamour from government-troubles has faded by now.

2 comments

I don't know, Megaupload and mega.co.nz are and were legitimate products and services. Surely a fraudster who was after investment scams wouldn't actually deliver products?
One of the few advertised products he's ever delivered, really. There's a decent writeup [0] for some of his past run-ins with the law and crazy claims. Come to think of it, there are some Trumpesque parallels.

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/kim-dotcom/

Sounds to me like he's providing a service that enables people to get around the government-backed scams of never ending copyrights. When the copyright's about to expire, the U.S. govt bullies other govts into signing another treaty extending the time period.