Megaupload Arrests May Deter Technology Entrepreneurs
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If Hollywood needed to cast a villain for a movie about the fight against online piracy, it couldn’t have done a whole lot better than Kim Dotcom.
The German computer programmer and founder of the online file-storage service Megaupload lived larger than a James Bond foe. Dotcom, who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz, lived in a $24 million mansion outside Auckland and drove luxury cars with license plates that read “Mafia” and “Guilty.”