If you follow the law, Jim most definitely doesn't belong in jail. He uses that same loopholes all major sites use, if KZfaq was held accountable for all content on its site, KZfaq wouldn't exist. Same for Mega.

Don't forget Hollywood tried to get a mandatory tax/fee added to every internet bill. So everyone would pay for piracy whether they did so or not. That would've been a heck of a precedent & bonanza for a private industry.

In Germany, the criminal file is of no interest to anyone as long as one does not work in security-relevant fields. In addition, entries are deleted there relatively quickly. His life at 20 was certainly not ruined.

Mega Upload times where good times, he didnt harm the average guy he was more of a content Robin Hood. The world needs more people like him.

Kim is a legend. He's been hosting unofficial Destiny 2 tournaments with decent prize pools, just because he enjoys the game and wants there to be a competetive scene.

Whilst I am sure he has calmed down now, I think Kim was in full-on "let's see what we can get away with" mode. He seems to have huge talent that could be utilised much better though.

This guy amuses me. The only reason he was pursued was because he didn't run his corruption through the official channels. Everything was a mockery, a satirical take down of the rich. That mailer to all his neighbours takes the cake. Rubbing their corruption in their faces in such a brazen style.

absolute legend, and one of the few things I regret in my life is not having more than 1 account of 50 GB mega

The video editing & explanation is just epic! Thank you so much for this video. Quality information.

I remember I saw a video on another channel about this guy and something important was missed here, unless it wasn't true. When the FBI first accused MegaUpload of hosting copyrighted material he lend them access to a tool for removing any hosted files without any type of restriction, so in that way he complied with them.

Mega upload was In essence just a warehouse to store files, imagine going to prison because you rent a house and it’s occupants store drugs there. The internet providers are the ones that allow the traffic to move over the internet, one could argue they are as much to blame. I’m not saying he didn’t know it was being used for illegal files, nor that he should have made more efforts to prevent this. But really he was picked off to make an example. I mean you can get illegal,pirated software from google drive accounts, and no one seems to be taking google on.

Everyone who says something that hurts their feeling is labeled a terrorist.

Anything that hurts copyright holders is a good and morally correct thing to do. Especially to Hollywood

4:50 - That's a US centric view. In Germany, it's absolutely not the case that you would give your criminal records to a employer, and they can't just google it either. For jobs that require security clearings, sure there you need to provide such records. But there aren't many of those in the grand scheme of things anyway. So, absolutely no issue for him considering job prospects.

As soon as you said Obama and Hollywood were working together to get this guy I knew he wasn't the bad guy.

You are an underrated story youtuber

How the AUS and NZ governments bow to the USA is unreal.

Kim Schmitz is a Robin Hood of our lifetime. Dude was on top in the golden era of the Internet. Now the big Corporations took over the internet.

Better editing than usual and ofc awesome story thank you😍

Megaupload, Rapidshare and MediaFire! Those were the days!!!

Sometimes he Tweets very stupid and disgusting things on Twitter(X) and he has a very anti US narrative but unlike many people he has a reason to say "fuck the US gov" He was doing things the right way as megaupload grows up... 9 months before the raid, Megaupload implemented that feature where copyright owners could claim the rights of its content for files that were shared... Apart from everything that happened, he is one of those big OG ´s that you can respect for some things he did (not everything)

Amazing video. I was just looking into Kim Dotcom recently! Quite an interesting guy!

Surprised that the police didn't find illegal pr0n and a copy of Mein Kampf. Maybe there's a culture difference between NZ police and US police. Hollywood loosing €500 million is just one Indiana Jones movie. How do you even lose money on a money printer? In my book Kim was kind of a Internet hero for a very short time. He seemed flaky, he would create very simple web sites and not update them. In retrospect it fits with his persona, he's a starter not a finisher. He's a real life Eric Cartman and I'm impressed with his tenacious attitude towards breaking the law ever so slightly. I wish I had some of that. I don't think he's a terrorist though, that's just a fake label that FBI put on him to make it seem like they were doing something important; "look at us we're fightin' crime & stuff". Nice video. Cool to go down memory lane. I never used Mega I think I used Direct Connect at the time since I had fiber optics in my apartment (Bredbandsbolaget for any Swedes out there).

Wow, you're reminding me of my teenage years where any movie or TV show you'd ever want to watch was readily available for quick n' easy download from mega upload. Those were the days.

Probably worth mentioning that NZ as a whole isn't "neighbourly" like you see in American TV shows. I don't know my neighbours names. I'll wave and say hi occasionally if we walk passed each other but that's about it. So sending someone a letter like that would just result in a reaction of "wtf is this dickhead". I remember meeting Kim Dotcom at the Black Ops 2 release. I worked for JB HiFi at the time (an electronics, music and games retailer). Management knew he was coming and we had extra staff on specifically for it. Dude came in for the midnight launch, brought several copies of the edition that came with the drone. Took photos with everyone and had a chat. Considering our age, most of the staff were pretty, shall we say, knowledgeable of Megaupload. So it was a bit of fun.

I've seen various videos on this story but, I think I like this one most. Well done!

this new style is epic, I really appreciate the edits i can tell it took hours !!! 💯💯

Notice that those same people don't want to pay any fair amounts to the workers...

it is like jailing a construction company, cause someone was murdered in a house they built. he built a giant hard drive, you rent space, not his problem, what is stored there.

The fall of megaupload made a lot of lost media that could not be recovered even to this day. Also, the megaupload misic was cool.

Great video as always.

I literally cried when I saw that dreaded fbi takedown photo when I visited megaupload on a random saturday I would literally die for this man.

There are people that do so much worse things than he did, and the FBI never goes after them the same way. The only bad thing he did was to hurt the already rich and make content more accessible to the poor

If he changed the name of his consulting company to Megaupload, how could it not be easily associated with him?

Great video, i am rely amazed by your editing, what editing program you use ?

This is old news but I realize I'm caught in a generational revamp time warp thingy... we lived it.

I remember years back I had a mega link for Minecraft, I preserved that link so well I still have it to this day, good times

Yeah this was an embarrassing event for NZ. The sad bit is that there was always a backdoor for the media industry to classify and restrict content stored on Megaupload. The metadata, uploader downloader IPs, usernames, etc was kept and shared with the original content producers.

Always like a Logically Answered video.

Nelson Mandela was labeled a terrorist by America till 2006 as well so I'm not surprised.

Sucha shame what happened with this guy, he had such great potential but then went down the conspiracy rabbithole, and like others he totally lost his mind. Seth Rich, Ukraine War, etc. Pretty much his legacy now.

The fact they regard this guy as terrorist says what that would means, non compliant, 1984 here we come

I love your videos, they are always well made with great visuals to tell the story. but you skip though the chapter titles very fast haha

Bro you can literally see him in Queenstown at least once a week.

If there is enough information available, can you make a video on why RARBG got killed recently?

Since the dude was literally doing the same thing as so many other US based companies yet he was singled out like that really makes it seem like he didn't pay protection money to the right groups or something. Or his business competitors weren't playing fair. Whole thing is fishy

That letter to his neighbors was fcking hilarious… I think many of my neighbors would have reacted similarly to his own but I would’ve showed up on his doorstep with a big smile and some nice whiskey to introduce myself and welcome him to the neighborhood if I got that sht…

Omg, when will countries stop listening to the USA.

I would have say that the editing of the video is really over powered

I would love a part two on his current internet presence. Whistle blower or conspiracy theorist flexing the definition of free speech while being a wanted man

Oh yeah another great video about another internet outlaw!!

this dude is a true legend

Great video brother! Have a great weekend!!

I always thought mega was basically the same thing as Dropbox

Man, I remember when mega got seized. It was the highest point of online piracy. Back when piratebay was almost a household name.

He might be a criminal but he's not a terrorist.

saying that megaupload was a piracy site is like saying that cryptocurrency is only being used by criminals

He was also the number 1 ranked player on MW3 for score during 2012.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing - Malcolm X

you know youre doing the world a good favor, when holliwood labels you as a terrorist

Dude, how much research did you do for this video? Kim Dotcom is not laying low. He‘s terminally online, just as he‘s always been. He’s very active over on Twitter, he hosts Twitter spaces & is friends with Elon Musk. He‘s big on political commentary these days, which, coming from someone who‘s been a grifter his entire life, isn’t exactly a shock or surprise.

He's not a legend yet, he's treasure to this world at the moment

I liked this video at 2:25 when u said he is still a free man 😊...Now I'm gonna watch the rest of the video coz this story is interesting enough at this point ❤from Zimbabwe

he is definetly the megamind villian who is loved by many

would be epic if he started streaming, he sounds like a character

The only thing you need are good lawyers and can pretty much do whatever you want.

How can a free download lose a company money? Do they think everyone who DLed something would've bought it instead if there was no piracy? Hell no they'd still have just as many sales but with infinitely fewer fans 😂

watched the big documentary on him. need a part 2 on his life. very interesting man.

actually the coolest guy ever , literally the hero

Okay, but did he rly cost them that much, or simply majority of people would simply not watch the movie, if they were required to pay for it ?...

I mean boasting wit a criminal record sounds strange for a data security company, as this really shows that you were "too dumb" not to be caught.

As a Kiwi I don’t know where you got the information that “all of New Zealand” hated him. Most of us either didn’t care or liked what he did for the community.

Unless MegaUpload openly condoned and supported piracy, refusing to work with legitimate takedown requests, there was no charge to be made. File sharing service is perfectly legal. The company cannot be blamed for what files the users upload. File sharing is not exclusively for piracy. The whole thing is bs. They muscled him down with bs law just because he resembles an icon that they hate, even though he himself doesn't do anything illegal.

Compared to the budget of Hollywood movies the 500 Million he "stole" from them is really nothing. Even some individual movies have exceeding this amount like Avengers infinity wars. So the only thing he did was to "steal" the equivalent of one big hollywood production in return to free access to art and culture for most average folks. That's what I call a modernday Robin Hood

Your videos are top tier. We appreciate you.

Not apprehensible. Reprehensible.

This was a mega good video

The fact he did all of this and yet was the first 1 on Call of Duty modern warfare is just wow

This video is way too overedited. It's hard to watch with so many moving parts.

Not that I agree with most of his doing, but his "crime"" was nothing compared with a lot of legitimate politicians shit

The sound design is excellent in this vid by the way. 🤙🤙

I honestly don't support piracy but do also want to when I see my favorite show is taken down from Netflix or Prime Video... makes me want to keep a pirated copy that will not be gone just because some regional blocking.

I dont know, dudes. I think crypto and all these ICOs are just a bubble. Well, crypto is good for transfers and so on, but I dont engage in trading and staking either. Its too risky. My friend recently lost $5000 there. I invest crypto in real business

How long it took you to edit this video? Solo editor or have a team? I used to edit similar videos in the past but it was way too time consuming.

honestly if he streamed and the fbi don't grab at least a joke sniper on him while he is streaming they would have failed in every possible way

Megaupload days were great. The rich & powerful will do anything to keep their money & power, that's why we can't have nice things.

I believe a Judge just ruled he can be extradited...but still gonna take some time to work through technicalities

A PBX is a glorified phone system to route calls inside of an office building, not worth very much on the information market, I'm surprised he found a buyer for it really. By today's standards a PBX would be considered so old it's obsolete.

your video quality is going through the rook

just a question, isnt kim the same guy that paid the hackers 400 grand (lizard group) to just flip off and let him play some games on christmas eve?

2 weeks after the raid we spent a week moving somethings into storage and the rest to rubbish tip. You wouldn't believe the things the agents let us keep.. Even a car!

I live in New Zealand and i knew none of this, i didnt even know we had an anti terrorism special tactics group

Kim is a legend. Full support to piracy.

I pirate games and no one is noticing about it and i'm still not arrested, Kim is a good guy he is pirating games for people who could not afford to buy the game

Okay there is some incorrect information here. New Zealand as a whole did not hate him, the government did, most of New Zealand actually loved him as he bought a large amount of capital to the country and helped with the economy

He was a legend on the Gumball Rally.

There's not enough about new zealanda actual stance on this man. Peter Thiel was granted citizenship illegally after 3 days and 2 holidays here. Kim is okay the rest need questioning

02:46 "Real"? I thought he had legally changed his name...

Aww man, Mega, that brings back memories. Good times

Hmm new topic uploaded to the brain 🧠 Great video 👍