Kim Dotcom - the gift that keeps on giving

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#3272757 17-Aug-2024 06:36

eracode: I personally knew well a senior NZ lawyer who did a lot of defence work for KDC in his early days here. It certainly wasn’t pro bono and a bill of $millions was racked up - and was not paid. Lawyer dropped him.

Could be tricky working for a client like that. Not only does he have to pay up but the money has to be clean 😁

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#3272784 17-Aug-2024 09:11

SomeoneSomewhere:

I'm not sure about that. From the books and the documentary, the whole thing was about blood tests not working with the small sample

I think that might be the example I'm thinking of - they were claiming to detect stuff when there wasn't actually going to be enough blood to expect a particle to appear?

Furthermore, the fingertip is perhaps the worst place to take a blood sample from if you want it to be representative of the blood in the rest of the body. Right at the extremities, and plenty of experienced medical researchers told them that.

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#3272790 17-Aug-2024 09:39

SomeoneSomewhere:

My understanding is that some of Theranos's claims fundamentally violated physics - think fitting 15 grams of drug in a 2 gram patch.

you do not take 15g of drug. most drugs come in mg or microg.

though this off topic thread has gone quite off topic.

i think i agree to disagree.

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#3272819 17-Aug-2024 11:24

I think there were some claims that you would fit a month or more of a drug in a single patch, but I agree that we're past the point of usefulness here.

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#3272837 17-Aug-2024 12:13

Back to Kim Dotcom please.

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#3272859 17-Aug-2024 13:29

old3eyes:

Yes this will be a show trial for the US media companies . I'm sure he did nothing different to what Google Drive, MS OneDrive , Dropbox etc are currently doing. I'm sure the FBI won't be hunting them down.

Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox actively scan(at random periods) for known filehashes of copyrighted content and remove them, Google is even worse in that they may close your entire google account(ie lose access to emails). Google even digs into your public file shares and views ppt/document data, scans it and will warn you via email if personal information(ie banking info) etc may be believed to be listed on that share.

Meanwhile MU when it was shut down was essentially having 500 links to a single file(hashing files to prevent duplication to save storage space) on a server and just disabling the reported link and leaving the infringing content and 499 other links active. Pretty blatant act to pretend you have taken action while looking the other way at the other 499 active links to the same file.

MU could have blocked reported content by filehash, they actively did it for CSAM at the time. Doing do would destroy their business model. They used US payment processors, US server hosts etc and paid the price for doing so.

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#3273286 18-Aug-2024 18:36

Goosey:

Do we need a badge for the day this all happens to mark “we were here”.

what would the badge graphic be? (The classic silhouette of the group)?

The badge would be KDC behind bars, of course!😁

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#3275011 24-Aug-2024 20:26

Kim Dotcom teases a return to politics, promising to bring ‘direct democracy’ - NZ Herald

“I’m not antisemitic or a Nazi. I’m simply a former hacker with great analytical skills who understands what’s happening in the world.”

Quoting from the fake The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? That's antisemitic right there. And, of course, trying to appeal to conspiracy theorists and racists in New Zealand.

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#3275015 24-Aug-2024 20:45

How long until he teams up with the likes of Liz Gunn or Brian Tamaki, I wonder?

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#3276287 28-Aug-2024 16:20

freitasm:

Back to Kim Dotcom please.

Sounds like a studio cross...!

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#3276344 28-Aug-2024 17:05

He's actually been laying out a few conspiracy theories on Twitter that a US congressman has (somehow) picked up on and (somehow) thinks they're gospel:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/sen-mike-lee-r-internet-conspiracy

But it’s not just that Lee—one of a very selective group of 100 individuals tasked with making the laws of this country—is getting duped by obviously fake videos. At around 1:30 a.m. in Utah—or well past three in the morning if, he happened to be back in Washington—Lee began amplifying a theory posted by Kim Dotcom, a German-Finnish entrepreneur soon to be extradited to the United States from New Zealand following a 12-year legal battle involving his file-sharing website Megaupload, which has been accused of costing the entertainment industry millions by making available huge amounts of pirated content.

Dotcom’s theory, which he posted about on X, revolved around the North Atlantic Fella Organization, an online activist group that has sought to counter Russian propaganda by posting militarized doge memes. While such an organization may seem like the sort of spontaneously forming online community that comes and goes every day on the internet, Dotcom had other visions. According to him, NAFO was actually a CIA-backed operation run by former congressman (and current Bulwark contributor) Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Never fear, though, Dotcom writes: NAFO has run out of its secret government funding and is now “officially dead.”

Lee didn’t question Dotcom’s ridiculous story. He instead took the post as an opportunity to condemn the CIA for supporting “clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence public opinion among U.S. citizens.”

Gullible much? 🙄

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#3276346 28-Aug-2024 17:11

Never assume Gullibility when Cynicism will do?

Maybe Kim Dotcom is looking for friends to arrange a pardon.

Trump was teasing giving a pardon to the 'Silk Road' guy along with boosting Crypto to pander to TechBro, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel etc donars. There might also be some valuable coin wallets that feds did not get.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vows-commute-prison-sentence-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht?msockid=0337f757885f671b2dd1e45589416621

Kim dotcoms crazy X posts seem to be reposted by Elon's friends that are well connected.
Appealing to Russia influencers may have its benefits.
Elon and Peter's backers seem to include well connected Russian families.

Kim seems to have been so successful with his own coin, maybe he can advise Trump.
https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-bitcache-a-us13-5m-failure-liquidator-report-reveals-230822/

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#3278353 2-Sep-2024 18:25

mdooher:

I might be wrong, but those charges only become valid if he is found guilty of the primary piracy charges.

Not really. Conspiracy doesn't require him to commit the crime but only to solicit or plan it. So essentially, the fact that they created incentives to upload popular (read: copyrighted) content would trigger the conspiracy charges, especially given they've already provided evidence in court that they did exactly that, with the explicit knowledge that it encouraged copyrighted content to be uploaded and shared.

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#3278404 2-Sep-2024 22:45

quickymart:

He's actually been laying out a few conspiracy theories on Twitter that a US congressman has (somehow) picked up on and (somehow) thinks they're gospel:

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/sen-mike-lee-r-internet-conspiracy

But it’s not just that Lee—one of a very selective group of 100 individuals tasked with making the laws of this country—is getting duped by obviously fake videos. At around 1:30 a.m. in Utah—or well past three in the morning if, he happened to be back in Washington—Lee began amplifying a theory posted by Kim Dotcom, a German-Finnish entrepreneur soon to be extradited to the United States from New Zealand following a 12-year legal battle involving his file-sharing website Megaupload, which has been accused of costing the entertainment industry millions by making available huge amounts of pirated content.

Dotcom’s theory, which he posted about on X, revolved around the North Atlantic Fella Organization, an online activist group that has sought to counter Russian propaganda by posting militarized doge memes. While such an organization may seem like the sort of spontaneously forming online community that comes and goes every day on the internet, Dotcom had other visions. According to him, NAFO was actually a CIA-backed operation run by former congressman (and current Bulwark contributor) Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Never fear, though, Dotcom writes: NAFO has run out of its secret government funding and is now “officially dead.”

Lee didn’t question Dotcom’s ridiculous story. He instead took the post as an opportunity to condemn the CIA for supporting “clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence public opinion among U.S. citizens.”

Gullible much? 🙄

Now you put it that way, his recent spoutings don't seem so silly. He needs to attract some gullible politicians, convince them he's hard done by and get himself a pardon.

Keep up the legal fight and prepare a plan B.

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