File-sharing millionaire refused bail in New Zealand could motivate others into doing what he wanted, claim associates
He lived a life dominated by fast cars, holidays on $10m super-yachts and an obsession with shoot 'em up computer games. But on Wednesday associates of Kim Dotcom, the former hacker wanted by the FBI over download sites allegedly costing copyright holders at least $500m (£320m), claimed his cartoon-like image was carefully calculated to help earn him a fortune. In fact, they said, it obscured a sharp and decisive business intelligence.
Dotcom, the 38-year-old German founder of Megaupload.com formerly known as Kim Schmitz, was on Wednesday refused bail by a New Zealand judge who warned he may try to flee the country if he were released from jail pending an extradition hearing on 22 February concerning online piracy charges in the Us.
Citing the discovery of unlicensed and illegal guns at Dotcom's rented mansion north of Auckland,...
He lived a life dominated by fast cars, holidays on $10m super-yachts and an obsession with shoot 'em up computer games. But on Wednesday associates of Kim Dotcom, the former hacker wanted by the FBI over download sites allegedly costing copyright holders at least $500m (£320m), claimed his cartoon-like image was carefully calculated to help earn him a fortune. In fact, they said, it obscured a sharp and decisive business intelligence.
Dotcom, the 38-year-old German founder of Megaupload.com formerly known as Kim Schmitz, was on Wednesday refused bail by a New Zealand judge who warned he may try to flee the country if he were released from jail pending an extradition hearing on 22 February concerning online piracy charges in the Us.
Citing the discovery of unlicensed and illegal guns at Dotcom's rented mansion north of Auckland,...
- 1/26/2012
- by Robert Booth, Toby Manhire, Stuart Braun
- The Guardian - Film News
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