Kim Dotcom

Kim Dotcom Will Be Extradited to the U.S. After Decade-Long Legal Fight

For over a decade, Dotcom has been fighting extradition. Now, the fight is over.

The Guys Who Ran Piracy Site Megaupload Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison

Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were sentenced in New Zealand for facilitating the piracy of millions of music, movie, and software files.

Elon Musk Explains Why He’s Never Letting Alex Jones Back on Twitter

Keeping the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist off Twitter is personal for Musk.

Former Piracy Hub Megaupload’s Cofounders Unsurprisingly in Spat Over Crimes (and Security Flaws)

Mega, the cloud provider that grew out of the controversial and defunct Megaupload, weathered security issues and harsh words from its former founder this week.

Kim Dotcom Is Almost Entirely Out of Chances to Avoid Being Extradited to the US

Kim Dotcom, the former founder of defunct file hosting service Megaupload and its successor Mega, just lost another court battle to avoid extradition to the US on charges of copyright infringement and fraud. Per the BBC, Dotcom lost an appeals court decision on Wednesday in New Zealand, where he has lived since 2008 and was…

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Kim Dotcom’s Civil Asset Forfeiture Appeal

Former Megaupload chief Kim Dotcom’s long, wild ride through the courts crashed into another setback Monday, with the Supreme Court declining to hear an appeal in the 2012 seizure of his assets in New Zealand. US prosecutors had charged Dotcom with crimes including racketeering and money laundering related to Megaupload, the file-hosting service they said…

Kim Dotcom Says FBI File About Seth Rich Is Fake, But He Won’t Delete It From Twitter

Have you seen that FBI file, purporting to be about the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich? Kim Dotcom, who thrust himself into the story recently by telling Sean Hannity that he had evidence Rich had sent documents to Wikileaks, published the document on Twitter, helping to spread it online. Dotcom now acknowledges that the…

Sean Hannity Tweets Out Ludicrous Seth Rich Conspiracy From Kim Dotcom [Updated]

Sean Hannity has hit a new low, but grasping the depths the Fox host is willing to go will take some explaining. On July 10 of last year a DNC staffer named Seth Rich was shot and killed near his home in Washington, DC, in an as-yet unsolved incident that police speculate was a botched…

This Doc About One of The Internet’s Biggest Pirates Actually Made Me Feel Sorry for the Guy

The man who created Megaupload got insanely rich via morally dubious means. So it’s pretty amazing that the new documentary about the German-born hacker-turned-millionaire generates any sympathy. But it does, by sketching out an easy-to-swallow narrative alleging that powerful corporate and government forces systematically set out to destroy his life. Caught in the Web opens…

Nobody Is Watching Kim Dotcom’s Livestreamed Extradition Hearing

Remember Kim Dotcom? He’s the convicted fraudster-turned rich dude who ran MegaUpload, that file storage website that hosted a ton of pirated content. In January 2012, Dotcom was raided by New Zealand authorities and he’s been in legal purgatory ever since. Right now, Dotcom is fighting extradition by the United States for charges of online…

Kim Dotcom Just Lost His U.S. Extradition Hearing

A court in New Zealand has judged that Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the U.S., where he could face trial over huge copyright infringements speculated to have cost music and movie companies in the region of $500m. The court ruled that Dotcom, along with three other defendants—Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn…

The long-delayed extradition hearing of Kim Dotcom has begun in Auckland, New Zealand. It’s expected to last weeks, as he battles against claims from U.S. authorities that he cost cost music and movie companies over $500m.

Kim Dotcom Is Rambling About Starting His Own Internet

The last time we left Kim Dotcom, he was busy poising himself as “Hilary’s worst nightmare in 2016” with a brand new pretend political party, the Internet Party. Now, our future President Dotcom is busy rambling to his eventual constituents on Twitter about starting his very own Internet. You know, just as soon as he…

Xbox Live and PSN Are Still Messed Up After Attack by Hackers 

PlayStation Network and Xbox Live are still repeatedly going offline and experiencing problems, so if you’re itching to try out a new Christmas gift game, you may have to wait. Update: Looks like Xbox Live is back but PSN is still down. An inane hacking group called “Lizard Squad” is taking responsibility for the service…

Kim Dotcom Is Bringing His Political Party to the US in 2015

Kim Dotcom may be down on his luck, be he’s certainly not out. The the German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur has now announced that he’s bringing his Internet Party to the US next year. While the political party failed to win a seat in New Zealand, he hopes that it will be “Hillary’s worst nightmare in 2016!”…

Kim Dotcom: I’m Broke

Long time, no Kim Dotcom. Well, perhaps the reason the German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur has gone so quiet is because he’s flat broke. Dotcom has publicly admitted that he’s entirely spent up. With a taste for the playboy lifestyle—and expensive cars in particular—it was only really a matter of time before mounting legal fees saw Dotcom’s…

Pranksters Get Kim Dotcom Kicked Off His Own Site For Piracy

Kim Dotcom is probably the most wanted man in the movie theaters’ fight against piracy. He’s under investigation by the FBI, and they’re trying to extradite him from sunny, safe New Zealand to the States. But those pale in comparison to his latest problem: his account on Mega, the cloud storage site he founded last…

Kim Dotcom Just Released His Own Electropop Album (Listen for Free!)

Last year, Kim Dotcom released a single dance track, and at the time he threatened to release an album. Now, as part of the launch of his new music streaming service, it’s here. https://gizmodo.com/kim-dotcom-wrote-a-dance-track-and-apparently-has-a-who-509855899 As part of the launch of Baboom, Dotcom’s new music streaming site that looks like Rdio and MySpace mashed together, he’s…

Kim Dotcom’s cloud storage service Mega now has its own iOS app. Go forth and… store!

The Megaupload Takedown Killed At Least 10 Million Innocent Files

When Megaupload got taken down two years ago, it took a whole hell of a lot of data with it. And eventually it got obliterated. Some of it was pirate data, sure, but some was legit too. And new research shows that, at the very least, ten million innocent files got the axe. https://gizmodo.com/a-whole-ton-of-megaupload-data-just-got-obliterated-514277088 Researchers…