The New Zealand prime minister has issued an apology to Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom.
Meanwhile, the media continued to focus on the misadventures of Kim Dotcom, publishing hundreds of stories.
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Kim Dotcom, like every smart founder of a startup in a crisis, is pivoting.
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Better known as Kim Dotcom, he was boss of Megaupload before it was closed by police.
As it is possible they will do in the Kim Dotcom and Megaupload cases.
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If media companies hate digitization generally, they particularly loathe Kim Dotcom and his entrepreneurial file-transfer platforms.
More details have emerged about the web storage service being set up by Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom.
Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom has announced his plans to launch a new website, despite still being under arrest.
The trial of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and the site's management team is due to start on 6 August.
Kim Dotcom is a web developer and my TV reference is archaic.
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Police raids on the offices of Megaupload and home of founder Kim Dotcom led to the closure of the file-saving and sharing system.
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom says the US government is protecting an outdated business model by shutting down his site and placing him behind bars.
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But since then the currency has steadied somewhat, thanks in part to adoption by key websites such as Reddit and Kim Dotcom's file storage site Mega.
In my second post about the new MEGA encrypted file service I discussed the chess game that Kim Dotcom was playing with the policers of copyright.
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But when Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested in January at his lavish New Zealand estate, he went from unknown entrepreneur to a flamboyantly rich cult hero.
Four men, including Megaupload Ltd. founder Kim Dotcom, were arrested in New Zealand on charges including conspiracy to commit racketeering, conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal copyright infringement.
Ever since his arrest earlier in the year, larger than life Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has become one of the central figures in the global debate surrounding piracy and file-sharing.
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German national Kim Dotcom - also known as Kim Schmitz - was arrested with three others in Auckland on 20 January in a raid requested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
It was that program that drew Kim Dotcom, the Internet entrepreneur accused by the U.S. of operating a website used to pirate half a billion dollars in entertainment, to relocate to the country.
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Despite this trend Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, has recently said he intends to create a new service despite the US's continued efforts to extradite him and his former co-workers from New Zealand.
Kim Dotcom was refused bail in New Zealand following his arrest at the request of the FBI for allegedly profiting from online piracy through Megaupload, the internet's biggest file-sharing website, which was founded by Mr Dotcom.
Between Monday and Thursday alone, the blueprints were downloaded by more than 100, 000 people from the website Mega.com.nz, run by Kim Dotcom, considered by U.S. authorities as public enemy No. 1 when it comes to internet piracy.
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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.
In an 81-page ruling, published online by the news site Torrentfreak, the judge noted that much of the evidence against founder Kim Dotcom and his associates was "contained on their computer equipment which was seized as a result of the activities of January 2012" - a reference to evidence gathered from search warrants executed in nine countries that month.
Mega was launched in January, a year after Mr Dotcom - originally called Kim Schmitz - was arrested, and his original site Megaupload shut down.
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