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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
I like the site. Can anyone give a technical synopsis of how this has been made, perhaps the time frame and complexity of an app like this? I'm assuming Kim hasn't coded this himself, anyone know if he outsourced to a company?
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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.
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…
Are you talking about AirBnb and their Craigslist scamming?
> He's only interested in money.
Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are doing God's work, right?!
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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…
Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...
> he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money
Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!
You gotta admire the guy's drive. Relentless. The player is also quite slick. No flash, and very responsive.
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.
Ok, if you have a problem with share-cropping then you should start with Zuckerburg and all the other social networks, not to mention Ariana Huffington who conned bloggers and writers to work for free...
And guess what? I pretty much listen to none of it anymore. My daily music dose now comes from Soundcloud, where active artists are putting up new tracks / mixes and giving the equivalent of Facebook likes to tracks that they personally enjoyed. It is a fun way of listening to music, and I often go and buy tracks on iTunes even if they are already free to download (which is the case a lot of the time).
This site has me really excited. The player is slick, the presentation is cool. Kim Dotcom's album itself is competently generic club music, which is more than can be said for a lot of club music.
Exciting!