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Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Post by zwdr »

yapcguy wrote: post #66
zwdr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> ... a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming 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?!

>Are you talking about AirBnb and their Craigslist scamming?

What? I don't even know if Kimble and AirBnB are connected...

>Meanwhile venture backed start-ups are doing God's work, right?!

If you do a Ctrl+F "venture" I'm sure you wont find any occurences in my post.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Post by Geee »

nForce wrote: post #56

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?

There's details about the company behind it: http://baboom.com/developers/ although no word about who works there.

The design and implementation of the site are excellent, it's a shame that the discussion here focused on Kim. There's obviously very brilliant and passionate people behind the site. Possibly the same team that works on Mega.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Post by zwdr »

yapcguy wrote: post #67
zwdr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

: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…

> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud. 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…

>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...

Please do a Ctrl+f again, I'm sure you wont find anything about HN or Start-Ups in my post.

>Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!

Dunno, guess some startups are shady, guess some don't. Can we please talk about Kimble now? You're derailing the topic here.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Post by nForce »

yapcguy wrote: post #66
zwdr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> ... a fraud and an asshole. The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming 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?!

How has AirBnb have any relation to Kim Dotcom.

How does another company in tech spamming, have anything to do with whether it's morally right or wrong with another company using such tactics?

Two wrong don't make a right..

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Post by zwdr »

rfnslyr wrote: post #41
zwdr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

: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.

I think the fact that he's good at marketing doesn't change the fact that he did a lot of morally questionable things.

And I don't think they're negligible– at least not from an ethical point of view.

Re: Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service

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Post by joelrunyon »

zwdr wrote: post #29
jnardiello wrote: post #16

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…

> The only things he's good at are marketing and scamming.

He's also apparently quite good at Call of Duty[1].

[1] http://www.kitguru.net/software/gaming/jon-martindale/kim-do...

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