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Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has suffered a serious stroke, a post on his X account says (apnews.com)

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Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke”, a post on his X account said Monday.

“I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” the post said.

Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to The Associated Press that the contents of the statement were accurate. Rothken would not say whether Dotcom or someone else wrote the post and did not provide further details.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I have no love for KdC.

I would like to see some sources there, as I remember him getting arrested, and as far as I remember, the worst he did was piracy, hosting of piracy, and potentially illegal dissemination of patents. Oh and possibly hosting some potentially illegal VPNs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He basically invented the whole "sueing people for illegal file sharing" industry together with his lawyer

Fuck that guy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, I understood that he was pretty scummy, even for a self professed "pirate," it was the faschist accusation I wanted clarity on. I didn't get any indication that the guy was interested in assisting any corporations, nor was he trying to help authoritarian ideologues.

I may have totally missed the fascist part since I was far more interested in the pirate part. I personally don't consider KdC to be an actual digital pirate, since he didn't seem to give one single shit about the free flow of information.

I also don't consider him a nautical pirate since he seemed to be making far more booty than a ship's charter would have allowed, and especially since he wasn't sharing the booty with anyone at all, as far as I can tell. Pirates were some of the original "communist entrepreneurs," AKA the original democratic co-op.

It wasn't pretty, but if someone like KdC became a pirate captain, his reign would be ended by his own crew. Probably spearheaded by the ship's boatswain (accountant, pronounced like bōsn or bōsün), quartermaster, (the guy with the swords and guns in the armory, also the guy who makes the shift schedule with the boatswain's recommendations), or the ship's doctor who regularly knew how much food or medical supplies were left, and could easily recruit the ship's cook into the "mutiny," or change of command.

KdC should have lost everyone that represented those keys to power within months of him setting up his scheme.