Kim Dotcom

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Kim Dotcom (2014)
Kim Schmitz (1996)

Kim Dotcom (* 21st January 1974 in Kiel as Kim Schmitz ) is in New Zealand -based Internet entrepreneur with German and Finnish citizenship. He is the founder of the sharehosters Megaupload and Mega . Dotcom first appeared in public as a black hat hacker , later as an entrepreneur, activities that earned him several final convictions. The FBI has been investigating alleged violations of US copyright law in connection with Megaupload since 2012 . Dotcom defends itself against the allegations.

biography

Career

Kim Schmitz attended the Heinrich Harms School (secondary school) in Plön , Am Schiffsthal, and, according to his own account, grew up in a problematic family shaped by his father's alcoholism .

Schmitz first appeared in public as a computer hacker under the pseudonym Kimble in the mid-1990s . A stir his demonstration caused the blue-box method in the WDR - TV Program Monitor . He was a member of the then flourishing mailbox scene with his mailboxes Beverly Hills BBS and House of Coolness BBS , in which warez were traded, among other things . He is said to have recorded the messages from the users of his box and thus learned inside information from hackers about weak points in the telephone system and in the software. He was paid, among other things, with stolen calling card data, which he resold. Later he ran a party line , which developed into a forum for phrakers and in which he in turn collected current information by listening.

Based on this information, Schmitz began producing magnetic cards with falsified payment information . During a house search on suspicion of black copies in the mailboxes, "hundreds of counterfeit credit and telephone cards" were found. Schmitz changed sides under the pressure of the criminal investigation and passed on information about the pirated copies and credit card scene to investigators. He then worked for the lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth and, as a “test customer”, provided him with information about pirated copies. This activity was recognized in his favor in the process, so that in 1994 he was sentenced to a two-year suspended prison sentence for fraud, computer fraud, professional stealing from a gang and misuse of titles .

According to Schmitz, he received information from a friend from the scene about a weak point in the GSM system of Deutsche Telekom Mobil D-1 (now Telekom Deutschland GmbH ). In return for silence, he received a consulting contract with DeTeMobil. With the proceeds from the consulting contract, Schmitz founded Data Protect Consulting GmbH in Munich, 80 percent of which he sold to TÜV Rheinland . Schmitz kept 20 percent of the shares. The GmbH filed for bankruptcy in 2001.

In a 2001 interview, he claimed to have hacked Citibank systems and transferred US $ 20 million to Greenpeace , which Greenpeace denied with reference to its accounting reports.

Insider dealing

In 2001 Schmitz announced that he would help the ailing company letsbuyit.com get back on its feet with 50 million euros. This payment should be made through the newly established venture capital company Kimvestor AG . The company caused scandals due to a presumed lack of legal capacity, incomplete information prospectuses for shareholders , shares without voting rights, supervisory board members who accepted and rejected once, and dubious liquidity. The announced investment was never made. Since the price had already skyrocketed one day before the announcement of the bridge financing, the public prosecutor's office started investigations into insider trading.

During this time, he also attracted attention through various publicity campaigns. For example, he put a bounty on Osama bin Laden and claimed to be working with the FBI . The organization he founded, Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism (Yihat), which was supposed to penetrate networks and computers used by terrorists, could not report any success. Instead, the group's website itself was manipulated multiple times by other hackers .

In January 2002 he fled to the Thai capital Bangkok and set up a new website that could be understood as a suicide announcement. Instead, he presented himself on the specified date as King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire ("King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimperium"). On January 18, 2002, he was arrested in Thailand and extradited to Germany with his consent. He was sentenced on May 27, 2002 by the Munich District Court for insider trading to one year and eight months ' imprisonment with probation and a fine of 100,000 euros. The court found Schmitz guilty on insider transactions with shares of the company letsbuyit.com N.V. to have achieved about one million euro profit.

After his conviction, Schmitz moved to Hong Kong and announced various new businesses, including Trendax Inc. , which was supposed to generate guaranteed stock market profits with the help of artificial intelligence. His lifestyle continued to attract media attention. At the end of 2004 Schmitz planned a seven-day road rally called Ultimate Rally for 2006, but it never took place.

At the beginning of 2007, the websites of Schmitz 'previous projects, such as B. Kimpire and Trendax and its website kimble.org removed from the web. At the end of 2007 reports appeared that brought him in connection with the sharehoster Megaupload . Schmitz offered the scene portal gulli.com money in the form of a line item, so the connection will not be published.

Kim Dotcom in New Zealand

In February 2010 Schmitz signed a lease for the Chrisco Mansion in Coatesville with the option to later acquire New Zealand's most expensive private property worth 15 million euros. Since then, Kim Schmitz has appeared as Kim Dotcom . According to an April 2010 article in Investigate magazine , Dotcom is listed in the Hong Kong corporate archives as Kim Tim Jim Vestor . Allegedly he is the managing director of Megaupload Ltd. and Megarotic Ltd.

As a co-founder of Megaupload, Dotcom was sued for $ 5 million in damages in 2011 for alleged copyright infringement by Perfect 10 , a company specializing in copyrighted erotic works and media . The proceedings ended with a settlement of an unknown amount.

In June 2010, Kim Dotcom applied for a permit to stay in New Zealand. In an online interview with the New Zealand Herald , he said the New Zealand Immigration Service had decided to issue a residence permit after considering his various offenses and planned business investments. However, the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office denied him the acquisition of several properties.

One month after the residency permit, Dotcom's attorneys announced that he was charged with trading violations in Hong Kong. Since this was not stated in the application, the New Zealand immigration authorities examined a deportation of Dotcoms, but finally decided against it. In October 2014 it became known that Dotcom had concealed a conviction in New Zealand from 2009 for dangerous driving (exceeding the speed limit by 99 km / h) when applying for a residence permit. The authorities are re-examining a possible expulsion.

FBI pursuit

On January 19, 2012, Dotcom was arrested along with three other people in New Zealand in connection with a raid on his property. The raid was later declared illegal (see below). An arrest warrant from the United States and an extradition request from the FBI have been opened against Dotcom for alleged copyright violations in connection with Megaupload. Megaupload is said to have inflicted more than $ 500 million damage on the copyright holders. If convicted in the USA, Dotcom faces prison terms of up to 20 years. Two attempts to leave the pre-trial detention on bail were refused, stating that there was an excessive risk of escape. All mega services were switched off.

On February 22, 2012, a New Zealand judge granted Kim Dotcom bail, as the entire Dotcom assets (approx. 175 million US dollars) had been confiscated and his family was not in danger of fleeing. In March, a New Zealand judge increased the monthly maintenance that Dotcom receives from his assets to 60,000 New Zealand dollars (approx. 37,000 euros at the time). In addition, Dotcom got his Mercedes back.

In early March 2012, the United States applied for Dotcom's extradition, on which the hearing was postponed several times to clarify outstanding legal issues.

In the US, Dotcom is fighting against law enforcement, claiming that US corporate criminal law does not allow prosecution of foreign companies that do not have offices in the United States.

In an interview with 3News journalist John Campbell, which aired on March 1, 2012, Dotcom denied all allegations. He relied on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which protects Internet services when they take action against copyright infringement at the request of rights holders. Megaupload also offered more than a hundred companies the opportunity to access the databases and delete files themselves. However, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibited Megaupload from actively searching for violations. Megaupload was not responsible for the files uploaded by users, which every uploader had to confirm.

On June 28, 2012, the New Zealand High Court ruled that searches and seizures were unlawful and that the data thus obtained should not have been released to American investigators because the search warrant was unlawful and the seized data carriers were handed over to the FBI and forwarded to the USA violated an express instruction. In late August 2012, Dotcom obtained six million New Zealand dollars from its frozen fortune in the High Court and the right to sell several confiscated cars. Dotcom intends to use the money to finance his living and legal fees.

The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key apologized in late September 2012 for the fact that Dotcom had not received the protection he was entitled to in New Zealand against unlawful prosecution. Dotcom and others had been bugged by the New Zealand intelligence service prior to the raid. However, New Zealand law does not allow him to monitor any citizens or permanent residents of the country - dotcom is considered such. Data from Dotcom's computers were illegally copied by the FBI and brought to the USA. In a parliamentary hearing on a bill to curtail these rights for New Zealanders, Dotcom testified in July 2013 that Key knew him well before the raid, accusing him of lying.

On May 31, 2013, New Zealand's highest court ordered the release of Dotcom's IT equipment.

In early February 2014, the Supreme Court's decision of June 28, 2012 was successfully challenged. According to this, the raid on Kim Dotcom's mansion near Auckland was in accordance with the law, with the court noting that the transfer of cloned hard drives was dotcoms to US authorities lacked any basis.

The New Zealand authorities' preservation of evidence in the extradition proceedings was completed at the end of November 2015. On December 23, 2015, a judge's verdict was published allowing Dotcom's extradition to the United States. His lawyers have announced an appeal against the court's decision.

On August 29, 2016, Dotcom's lawyers tried again to prevent his extradition to the United States through legal proceedings. On February 20, 2017, a second court in New Zealand confirmed that the German internet entrepreneur could be extradited, not because of copyright infringement, but because of fraud . At the beginning of July 2018, Dotcom's appeal against this judgment failed. Dotcom intends to sue the New Zealand Supreme Court against his extradition to the United States.

Illegal surveillance by the NSA

The National Security Agency (NSA) monitored Kim Schmitz from December 16, 2011 to March 22, 2012. However, the former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key had previously only admitted monitoring time for around one month. The NSA illegally monitored Kim Schmitz for around two months. The action was documented in files of the New Zealand Secret Service Bureau for State Communications Security, which were submitted to the New Zealand Herald .

Private life

Dotcom is third married and has five children, one of which is from his first marriage. On May 17, 2014, Kim Dotcom announced the separation from his second wife. On January 20, 2018, he announced his marriage to 23-year-old Elizabeth Donnelly via Twitter.

Other activities

Kim Dotcom has an extensive web presence and operates the YouTube channel MrKimDotcom , on which he u. a. published humorous web videos with a socially critical background and music videos. Dotcom showed his dissolute lifestyle by participating in the Gumball 3000 rally several times with vehicles such as a Mercedes-Brabus E V12 , chartered yachts and publishing online videos showing him in exotic locations or at the Monaco Grand Prix .

Kim Dotcom is also sporadically active as a musician. In 2012 he released the album Party Amplifier , on which u. a. a protest song against Barack Obama titled Mr. President is included. At the production was Printz Board involved, who had previously written the "Yes We Can" for Obama's election campaign of 2008. Since 2011, Dotcom has released five singles that are available for free download on its website Kim.com . He also produced a music video for each song . In the night from December 31, 2013 to January 1, 2014 Dotcom performed at the New Zealand “Rhythm & Vines” festival, where he presented his music to over 25,000 visitors. His second album Good Times was released in January 2014 .

As a passionate video gamer , Dotcom reached number 1 on the international leaderboards for the Xbox 360 game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on December 31, 2011 . A self-published web video shows in fast motion how Dotcom sits at the console for several hours until he makes it to the first place on the leaderboards for kills and free-for-all with his pseudonym Megaracer . On September 10, 2013, Dotcom announced that it would play the same game against 100 volunteer visitors at New Zealand's first video game fair, Digital Nationz. He defeated 99 of the challengers.

In the spring of 2014, Kim Dotcom founded the New Zealand party Internet Party . His goals were cheaper and faster internet connections and more security and freedom on the internet. In addition, New Zealand should become a more attractive place for startups and internet companies. Dotcom is not allowed to hold or run for office in the party because he does not have the citizenship of New Zealand. But he finances the work of the party. The party formed an alliance with the Mana Party of the Maori indigenous people, represented in parliament, and won Laila Harré, a former member of the New Zealand Greens, as party leader and top candidate. A forecast of the forecast market iPredict for the elections on September 20, 2014 indicated that a move into parliament with around five seats could be expected. In the election, however, the Internet Party only won 1.26% of the vote and thus did not get a seat in parliament.

Companies

Megabox and Megakey

In December 2011 - three weeks before his arrest - Dotcom had started the music marketing service Megabox , through which artists were supposed to flow 90% of their income directly, which was supposed to attack the business model of the music industry. As a result, the Universal Music Group arranged the deletion of the music video Megaupload Song from YouTube , in which Dotcom and well-known artists such as Alicia Keys or Kanye West participate and advertise Megaupload. The video is now available there again. In a press release, Dotcom spoke of a "campaign to sabotage Megabox and block innovation". In addition, Dotcom planned to make all mega services available free of charge to users who had installed Megakey , software that would have replaced the advertisements placed by the webmaster with advertisements from Dotcom on all websites on the Internet.

Mega

Mega is a website launched by Kim Dotcom on January 19, 2013 for uploading files to a cloud . A special feature is the encryption with an RSA cryptosystem , which takes place before the upload , in which only the respective user has the key. This makes it very difficult for the company or third parties to access the data. Accordingly, externally linked data can only be read with a suitable password. On July 30, 2015, Kim Dotcom publicly distanced himself from Mega in a Q&A on Slashdot : “The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is being searched for fraud in China. (...) I don't think that your data is still safe with Mega. "

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Good Times
  NZ 8th 01/27/2014 (5 weeks)

Albums

  • 2012: Party Amplifier
  • 2014: Good Times

Singles

Documentaries

  • Annie Goldson: Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web. 2017, 107 min.
  • ZDFinfo: Criminal Careers Kim Dotcom - King of the Pirates , 2016, 45 min.

Web links

Commons : Kim Dotcom  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Kim Dotcom  - on the news

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Dotcom, Kim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitz, Kim (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Finnish criminal, hacker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel