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Kim Dotcom Resigns From Mega To Fight Extradition, Run For Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the remember-when-he-was-evil dept.

rjmarvin writes "The Internet mogul and founder of the infamous file sharing and storage service confirmed he has stepped down as director to fight his U.S. extradition case, develop Megabox — his revolutionary music platform — oh, and to start his own political party and run for office in New Zealand's elections next year. What about the cutting-edge encrypted email service he promised? Well that's Chief Executive Vikram Kumar and new Director Bonnie Lam's problem now. Dotcom will have his hands full trying to 'get New Zealanders a new submarine cable, fair Internet pricing & no more data caps...'"

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  1. Not good enough by Richy_T · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cutting-edge, encrypted email should be an RFC, not a service.

  2. Re:Gee, he's got my vote by Hatta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The politician you know is a felon is more honest than the one who claims not to be.

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  3. Surprised? by waddgodd · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If anyone was actually surprised at this, given his attention-whore-arms-race-partner Julian Assange running for parliament, I've got some nice oceanfront property to sell you in Kansas. Schmitz (his v 1.0 last name) has pretty much had a year or two's shelf life on any given project before he found a bigger "look at ME" project for the last couple of decades. Well, I wish him good luck, and all that. I look forward to the schadenfreude of watching people actually think he's not just saying whatever it takes to get to the next headline for many years to come.

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    1. Re:Surprised? by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Insightful

      So, you're criticizing Assange and (sigh) dotcom for being attention whores? For not being saints?

      I literally just shit my pants so much that my whole colon came out and shot through the wall in shock. And then the rest of my internal organs followed when I realized that might mean that people who are less than perfect could potentially be elected into office.

      I mean, my God, they might sully the good name of elected officials! They might make decisions which are not necessarily in the best interests of everyone! They might have sex while in office with people who are not their spouses and in positions which are not missionary! They might make headlines for things which are not "Kim Dotcom and Julian Assange quietly achieve world peace and nuclear fusion." There might be annoying headlines about things they do! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

  4. Re:Gee, he's got my vote by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think, given the current state of the law, we are all felons.