Name: Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz)

Born: January 21, 1974, in Kiel, West Germany

  • German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur also known as Kimble.
  • Founder of Megaupload on March 21, 2005, and its associated websites.
  • Rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a teenage hacker and Internet entrepreneur. He was convicted of several crimes, and in 1994, received a suspended prison sentence for computer fraud and data espionage. In 2003, he received another suspended sentence for insider trading and embezzlement.
  • Launched a new project entitled “Mega” on January 19, 2013, a cloud storage service that uses encryption to protect users from government or third-party “spies” from invading users’ privacy.

Quotes

“It’s kind of like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, you know? If you want to go after someone and you have a political goal you will say whatever it takes. These are fabrications and lies. There are a hundred other companies out there that offer the same service like us.”

Websites

  • Kim Dotcom personal website