There's a brief article about him on Wikipedia. He's an old hacker who made money by inside trading and later set up the Mega* sites brand with Megaupload, Megavideo and Megaporn along others. On Google Video there's 6 years old video when he goes to Monaco grand prix and spends $10 million over the weekend for all kinds of parties.
He's been awfully silent lately, but lately he bought NZ$30 million mansion from New Zealand and got residency there. After that he sponsored $500,000 fireworks for capital of NZ in celebration of residency. All that with the money he made from piracy.
It's also been "industry" standard to know that Megaupload is very nice for piracy uploaders. I have despited it, and still some people do it - Megaupload has always been the "one". Other one is MediaFire, though there are even more notorious ones. It's only good - criminals are taken to court and jail so companies can again produce goods and software and they don't have to see the widespread piracy that is going on. U.S. is right on about this, despite what you would think (and I will probably get modden down for saying this, but..)
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There's a brief article about him on Wikipedia. He's an old hacker who made money by inside trading and later set up the Mega* sites brand with Megaupload, Megavideo and Megaporn along others. On Google Video there's 6 years old video when he goes to Monaco grand prix and spends $10 million over the weekend for all kinds of parties.
He's been awfully silent lately, but lately he bought NZ$30 million mansion from New Zealand and got residency there. After that he sponsored $500,000 fireworks for capital of NZ in celebration of residency. All that with the money he made from piracy.
It's also been "industry" standard to know that Megaupload is very nice for piracy uploaders. I have despited it, and still some people do it - Megaupload has always been the "one". Other one is MediaFire, though there are even more notorious ones. It's only good - criminals are taken to court and jail so companies can again produce goods and software and they don't have to see the widespread piracy that is going on. U.S. is right on about this, despite what you would think (and I will probably get modden down for saying this, but..)