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> The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud. He used a number of straw-men and businesses to accumulate more and more Mega shares. Recently his shares have been seized by the NZ government. Which means the NZ government is in control. In addition Hollywood has seized all the Megashares in the family trust that was setup for my children.

Huh! I had no idea Mega was publically shared. Why would you do that if your philosophy was supposed to be privacy, not money?

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'm going to wait for his opensource, non-profit alternative.

Would it be a violation of a non-compete to drum up interest before the non-compete expires?

that depends on his actual non-compete agreement, not some generic legal theory.

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post #6

I'm not involved in Mega anymore. Neither in a managing nor in a shareholder capacity. The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud. He used a number of straw-men and businesses to accumulate more and more Mega shares. Recently his shares have been seized by the NZ government. Which means the NZ government is in control. In addition Hollywood has seized all t…

If Dotcom wanted an open-source community-supported file sharing platform that couldn't be taken over by external forces, why did he create the perfect antithesis to that?

Why did he in fact sign an agreement barring him from competing in that sector?

I can't understand how somebody who wants such a perfect world consistently painted himself into a corner from which he couldn't.

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post #18
post #6

I'm not involved in Mega anymore. Neither in a managing nor in a shareholder capacity. The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud. He used a number of straw-men and businesses to accumulate more and more Mega shares. Recently his shares have been seized by the NZ government. Which means the NZ government is in control. In addition Hollywood has seized all t…

If Dotcom wanted an open-source community-supported file sharing platform that couldn't be taken over by external forces, why did he create the perfect antithesis to that? Why did he in fact sign an agreement barring him from competing in that sector? I can't understand how somebody who wants such a perfect world consistently painted himself into a corner from which he couldn't.

Maybe for money?
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