The knowledgeable home members, previously suspicious of the patka-sporting cult hero, were suddenly forced to sit up and recognise what the fuss had been about.
One of the more notorious offenders, a big-boned German named Kim Dotcom, became a cult hero when the U.S. government convinced the Kiwis to shutter his file-sharing platform MegaUpload last August with a brazen raid of his Auckland compound.