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Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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> "Merry X-mas & a hacky new year by KIMBLE" > 19 - 21 December 1996 He's horrible! In all seriousness, I've had a quick read through (with the finest of Google's translations) and I'm not sure what you're drawing exception to. There's stuff that just sounds like satire and other BS, but I can't figure out why you wrote what you wrote.

:S EDIT: For a bit of background: He and the CCC were never really friendly with each other. He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud. For example, he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money (that he didn't have back then). There are a few other stunts, but generally he behaved like a 14 year old asshole with a big ego and too…

Yeah, and this is why I'm still trading the precious hours of my life for a few dollars to write code nobody is ever going to use, look at, or benefit from, while he is bathing in money.

The scummy shit he did is negligible.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Wow, never thought it would be such hate on HN against kim.com? I think he seems to really fight for internet freedom in more ways than the angry commentators in this thread probably will ever do. Who cares if he had a dark past. He's already been to jail for one crime in my knowledge and I think he really deserves his money. It seems you're gonna buy the songs you want to listen to directly from artists with this ne…

The only thing he has ever fought for is his own bank account. He doesn't have a "dark past", but an ongoing history of scamming. You can be assured that he will find the optimal way to scam both you and the artists out of as much money as possible.

Please, enlighten me. Because I have no idea of what you're talking about. Give me some proof.

All I've seen and heard is that the super fiasco on the megaupload case but that's not a fiasco for him, the users or anyone else but the governments involved.

For now, I am still a fan of Kim.com.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Fuck Kim Dotcom. He's a scumbag piece of shit who deserves to rot in prison. He plots and schemes way to put hundreds of millions of dollars into his pocket off of the works of others. Anyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

A troll just got 50 internet points on HN. Congratulations.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Not really a fan of the vitriol in the grandparent comment, but yes, the record industry is different in that some of the profits accrue to the artists. Maybe not enough, but that's different than giving them nothing at all.

From what Courtney Love said, that's not really true. Well selling records can actually put the artist in debt. The best venue for artist to earn money are tours and merchandise.

"... selling records can actually put the artist in debt."

Yes, of course. It's no different than startups - if you take on $500,000 debt to start your business (a.k.a. make an album, promote the album), you will be in debt until you sell enough product to pay off said debt.

The best venue for artist to earn money are tours and merchandise.

A good new year's resolution for us all is to "Stop talking about stuff you don't know about as though you have experience with it."

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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The only thing he has ever fought for is his own bank account. He doesn't have a "dark past", but an ongoing history of scamming. You can be assured that he will find the optimal way to scam both you and the artists out of as much money as possible.

Please, enlighten me. Because I have no idea of what you're talking about. Give me some proof. All I've seen and heard is that the super fiasco on the megaupload case but that's not a fiasco for him, the users or anyone else but the governments involved. For now, I am still a fan of Kim.com.

If I only ever read my news from sites like torrentfreak, I too would think kim was an awesome, super guy. It's not hard to diversify your news sources...

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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The only thing he has ever fought for is his own bank account. He doesn't have a "dark past", but an ongoing history of scamming. You can be assured that he will find the optimal way to scam both you and the artists out of as much money as possible.

Please, enlighten me. Because I have no idea of what you're talking about. Give me some proof. All I've seen and heard is that the super fiasco on the megaupload case but that's not a fiasco for him, the users or anyone else but the governments involved. For now, I am still a fan of Kim.com.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/

It takes a lot of gullibility to be a fan of that guy...

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Kim Dotcom is an evil genius and a remarkable marketing guy. During his whole career no doubts he made a fortune out of other people work BUT, still, he can't be considered responsible for it because - in fact - he had MILLIONS of users who actually used the pirated content megaupload made available (and i dare anyone here to throw the first stone if they never used megaupload). So, while i'm not yet sure i like the…

Kimble is a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming. Just take a look at his history- insider trading, selling userdata from a BBS he ran to a lawyer, scamming the german telcos... the list is quite long. He's a good marketer, but one of the worst people I've read about. There's a file of his quotes (from the CCC mailing list) circulating, if you know german you should try readin…

He's also hilarious, just watch "Kimble goes Monaco" on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZBZV8hFb4 (German, but with english subtitles I think).

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Please, enlighten me. Because I have no idea of what you're talking about. Give me some proof. All I've seen and heard is that the super fiasco on the megaupload case but that's not a fiasco for him, the users or anyone else but the governments involved. For now, I am still a fan of Kim.com.

If I only ever read my news from sites like torrentfreak, I too would think kim was an awesome, super guy. It's not hard to diversify your news sources...

Who said that I even visit torrentfreak?

/facepalm

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Please, enlighten me. Because I have no idea of what you're talking about. Give me some proof. All I've seen and heard is that the super fiasco on the megaupload case but that's not a fiasco for him, the users or anyone else but the governments involved. For now, I am still a fan of Kim.com.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/kimble/ It takes a lot of gullibility to be a fan of that guy...

I read some articles and I knew most of the stuff there. But my eyes hurt after visiting that website but even if it's just a hate site put up I will continue to read the articles and reply you later this evening when I have more time.

But on first glance, it doesn't show any real picture of what happened. Just the typical hate campaign.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Yes we do.I also didn't know that they were portuguese

They weren't, I think they had to "hide" there after all the Megaupload drama.

They have numerous remote working developers across Europe. Makes sense their HQ to be there; also, in terms of taxes and etc as far as I know everything is pretty tight.
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