Kim just misses his money and fame.
I'd miss my money too, were I in his shoes. Wouldn't you?
but he created trendax - the money making machine. I just assumed he had a never ending money supply after that.
Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
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Re: Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you find it shocking when the Prime Minister of a nation apologized directly for the ridiculous abuse of power and error in execution? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=15030...
Any raid being apologized for by the PM has nothing to do with his previous exploits which he has already been indicted and prosecuted for.
Okay, so if he's been prosecuted for it and served his time, then he's fulfilled his debt to society, no?
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That's an interesting 5 letters reply. Does that means you have something to show which might stand the comparison? The guy did it, has a strong brand recognition and people who publicly expressed their sadness that megaupload was gone and their eagerness to give him their business again. Now he is out there to get some. I say good luck to him.
Yeah that's one way of looking at it and I once did so myself. I've seen various projects of Kim Schmitz (aka Dotcom, aka Kimble) since the late 90s and all of them ended up failing because they weren't sustainable in one way or another. But he always came back with something fresh... This time he is trying the same things twice. So my personal opinion: lame.
Do you think that mega ran into trouble the first time because it was lacking substance in some way?
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#64Discussion apart, seriously slick landing page IMHO.
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#65I can vouch for Kim's positive traits. He also has negative traits, as do we all - but I don't know much about them. However he was a customer of AdBrite (a large ad network I founded around 2000) and I spoke with him via Skype many times around 2002. AdBrite is kinda like AdSense in that you can run our ads on your site and make money. And he was running AdBrite on one of his sites. I don't remember which site of Ki…
ahh AdBrite. I remember trading ad impressions with your nextwork. ad tech was hot during those times!
Re: Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
#66I can vouch for Kim's positive traits. He also has negative traits, as do we all - but I don't know much about them. However he was a customer of AdBrite (a large ad network I founded around 2000) and I spoke with him via Skype many times around 2002. AdBrite is kinda like AdSense in that you can run our ads on your site and make money. And he was running AdBrite on one of his sites. I don't remember which site of Ki…
ahh AdBrite. I remember trading ad impressions with your nextwork. around the right media exchange days.. ad tech was hot during those times!
Re: Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any raid being apologized for by the PM has nothing to do with his previous exploits which he has already been indicted and prosecuted for.
Okay, so if he's been prosecuted for it and served his time, then he's fulfilled his debt to society, no?
It means "he's a self-made man" is a claim which needs to be shot down, and that's the claim that was being shot down.
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#68Kiwi here and the rumour is that this new venture breaks his parole so back to the little jail cell with a mouldy mattress for him. We're not fans of people that try and bribe/blackmail our politicians here.
Re: Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
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He's a career criminal. He hacked for profit. He traded in stolen phone cards and turned in his compatriots for reduced sentence. He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors. He evaded prosecution by jumping jurisdiction. He tried (and failed) to run a fake hedge fund. He sold pirated software. He committed insider trading. He's not a self-made man. He's a career criminal…
If he did all those things (not saying he didn't, might just be incompetence elsewhere) it should've been fairly easy to indict him at the time or on those grounds. Still seems awful to wrongly impound an entire company with no due process.
He's been indicted a boatload of times.
Re: Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
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Here's an image of both logos next to each other. http://tinyurl.com/c32hw83 Kim got rid of the 3D, made the colors more bold, and removed some of the outlines. The changes also had the effect of making the word "AdBrite" appear larger, even though (in this comparison) the images are the same size. Subtle, but was meaningful to me. Because (a) I liked his version better, and (b) In all my years entrepreneuring, it's…
FYI, your link returns "Oops, we encountered an error. Access denied. You have accessed a location on this server that is not available. You may need to Sign in to your account to access this page."
Aargh. It's some bug with the new Skitch. Is everyone getting the same error?