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23-01-12, 11:29 AM
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"Dotcom" bust
No doubt most people have heard about the bust of the German guy "Dotcom" in New Zealand. He ran "Megaupload".
How's this for living lavishly though? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10780514 
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23-01-12, 11:36 AM
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Wow!!!
But surely he didn't make all that money from the website did he?
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23-01-12, 11:42 AM
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23-01-12, 11:59 AM
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Megaupload was a pretty big website, I remember it was top 50 websites in the world at one stage..
- 50 million daily users. - 150 million registered users. they had a load of advertising/pop ups and other random stuff. Also I believe they had paid memberships? I mean think 1 million users paying $20 a month?? Good video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVoM7WPgbxc "generating over $175m in proceeds from subscriptions and advertising,"
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23-01-12, 12:52 PM
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Check out the photo in this article. He is a big boy; or the other guys are small.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/loca...om-raid-lawyer Also details how he got residency in NZ. Invested $NZ10m into Government Bonds.
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23-01-12, 02:05 PM
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Fascinating stuff, those single file hosting websites are money making machines. I thought megaupload was getting a bit carried away when they got celeb endorsements from the likes of Kanye West & P Diddy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc To put it in perspective of how big these sites are, a ex acquaintance runs a site with over 2.5 million active users, all using those services - and that's just 1 site!
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23-01-12, 03:27 PM
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Not defending him or his site but it's concerning that the US gov has arms so long they stretch to NZ. Why do they need SOPA/PIPA if they can already pick up anyone they want?
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23-01-12, 03:43 PM
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They only have jurisdiction because MU allegedly used a datcenter in the states AFAIK
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23-01-12, 09:03 PM
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23-01-12, 10:57 PM
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The company is registered in Hong Kong, but not all of the servers are o/s:
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I see a few other file sharing websites (like FileSonic & FileServe) are getting anxious and going out of there way to prevent and remove copyrighted content and in some cases even cancel the accounts of users who are uploading suspected pirated content..
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