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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom making comeback

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Bill Steele

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Sep 23, 2013, 11:11:36 AM9/23/13
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Fuck you Obama! You stupid paranoid fucking nigger!

Your less than 10% racist black ass is the worst thing that ever
happened to the entire world.

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is fighting back after New Zealand
authorities smashed up the mansion he built with the millions he
made founding a filing sharing empire. He is suing the New
Zealand government for more than six million New Zealand dollars
(or about $4.8 million).

Early last year, police raided Dotcom�s $30 million mansion and
came away with some of his possessions, including a pink
Cadillac and a Mercedes Benz. Dotcom is claiming the raid used
unnecessary force and terrorized his wife and young children.

�Throughout the operation the police paid little or no effective
regard to the rights or needs of the occupants of the
properties, and dealt with them in a highly aggressive,
oppressive and intimidatory fashion, such as to cause
significant unnecessary distress and anxiety and fear,� the
complaint claims.

Dotcom is linking his cause to the National Security Agency
(NSA) leaks revealed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden.

�The case will show how the Five-Eyes spy cloud, X-Keyscore and
PRISM were utilized in our copyright case,� Dotcom told WIRED in
an interview. �Remember, I�m not a terrorist.�

The FBI wants to extradite Dotcom to the United States to try
him for copyright infringement, but for now the jovial German
national is sitting pretty in New Zealand and could easily
become a millionaire again (if the lawsuit works out).

In the meantime, he�s working on several projects, including a
site similar in style to the now-defunct Megaupload as well as a
political party. Even though most of his funds are frozen by the
government, he�s finding ways to move on.

�I've raised money from investors,� Dotcom told the Washington
Post. �I've raised $4 million (US) for Mega, which is going to
last for a little while. That will allow us to complete all
these services. We're also planning to list Mega either on the
Australian or New Zealand stock exchange.

By doing an IPO, the company will probably also raise another
$20 million to $30 million depending on the valuation. That'll
let Mega provide everything from chat to voice to video
streaming, fully encrypted. And then the music service I'm
working on is a separate entity has nothing to do with Mega.

The idea before was to call it Megabox, but I changed it to a
brand I think is better � Baboom.

That is a separate entity that has also raised $2.5 million. If
we just apply the same formula that Dropbox applied in terms of
value per user and the same calculation they made to get to
their valuation, Mega is already worth over $100 million, and
hopefully by the time we list the company we will double the
amount of users we have right now.�



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