Saw this earlier, what do you guys think of this?

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Edit: Redditor deleted the image linked due to criticism, restored as an imgur link.

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nzEnglish
      351·
      10 days ago

      He’s speaking about a previous Prime Minister of NZ. Who’s actually secular, but has some Jewish heritage through a grandmother, but was raised Anglican, but really non religious.

      • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        Antisemites don’t actually care about his religion. It’s racism. Jewish heritage means Jew, which to them means evil. No Jewish heritage but in their way means secret Jew, which to them means secretly evil.

  • kadu@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    119·
    10 days ago

    This guy was arrested inside his own safe with a gun. He is a lunatic. He is also obviously trying to cash out somehow, even though since 2015 he himself claims to have no ties with Mega anymore and that it has been compromised.

    Either way, Mega hasn’t been good for piracy for ages, nor is it trust worthy for private data sharing.

    • TJA!@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      10 days ago

      In the linked post he writes

      Full Disclosure: I’m no longer involved with Mega but it operates lawfully like Megaupload did. The fact that Mega is still online after I founded it 13 years ago shows that the case against Megaupload was political, a total Hollywood overreach and the New Zealand Govt should be ashamed for still wanting to extradite me.

  • Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
    1142·
    10 days ago

    Kim dotcom is how I imagine John McAfee if he became a billionaire.

      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        13·
        10 days ago

        I briefly met him at Defcon years ago and got an immediate off putting vibe to say the least. Then I saw him get up and tell his unhinged life story which then lead to a pitch for some crypto bullshit. I wish I had saved the 60 or so seconds I spent talking to him.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17·
      10 days ago

      I see him more like the Larry Flynt of file sharing. He’s a piece of shit, but he’s also fighting for the right side.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      When a person’s words makes then look like an ass, I’m not sure that giving them more exposure is “promoting” them.

      • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        Any publicity is good publicity.

        You may think it makes him look like an ass, but to an ass he looks like their kind of guy.

        Case in point: Donald Ass Trump

        • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
          4·
          9 days ago

          I really hate to accept that exposing assy words and behavior just makes it worst, but it’s hard to argue with that example.

          The way the internet enables awful outliers to find each other and organize really makes one question whether it was ever a good idea.

  • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    611·
    10 days ago

    Dotcom is now effectively Musk’s hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn’t had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he’s been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he’s isolated and mentally deteriorating.

    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nzEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      Down in the deep south near Glenorchy. Isolated even for a New Zealander. Find Queenstown on a map and then follow the shore of the lake Queenstown is on to the west, tada Glenorchy. He lives there

  • sidebro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    40·
    10 days ago

    What is this post even? If he’s looking for an out he’s doing a shit job.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    10 days ago

    Bragging about how much of your service’s traffic is used for Piracy doesn’t sound like a smart tactic.

    Also,

    and I show you how to make billions with piracy

    The fuck? Wanna bet it’s some hare-brained NFT scheme?

    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
      19·
      10 days ago

      It’s probably something like “deliver a good product or service at a good price and everyone will buy it instead of pirate it”

      Hollywood like any other industry is just overwhelmingly greedy. Instead of getting a buck or two from everyone they want to get a hundred bucks from a portion of them…. While screwing basically everyone working on the project and funneling the proceeds into the hands of an extreme minority.

      The rent seeking from subscriptions that has all but swallowed whole all media is disgusting. Physical media will be gone soon and we will be left with shitty bitrate renting.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      It’s not even good for piracy because of the shitty bandwidth limits for users that pop up halfway through downloading something and make you wait until tomorrow or pay.