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The Truth-PHOTOS & Info-The REAL Kim Dotcom (Megaupload)
PHOTOS & Info- The REAL Kim Dotcom (Megaupload)
Report Compiled by Ladybbird from Various Sites, including: Tonteria/Buszfeed/Huffington Post.
PLEASE give me, and this site credit if you C & P it to post elsewhere. 
The Real Kimdotcom;
Kim Dotcom in 1996 - Born Kim Schmitz
(1974-01-21) January 21, 1974 (age 38)
Germany
Rebel Kim
Charatan Kimble
Kim Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz on January 21, 1974, also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish businessman who rose to prominence during the dot-com bubble and was convicted of insider trading and embezzlement in its aftermath.
1. He made $42 million from Megaupload in 2010 alone.
Megaupload has made $175 million since 2005.
2. Megaupload reportedly gets 50 million visitors a day.
Megaupload was at one time the 13th biggest website on the internet.
The site made money from ads and by charging customers for premium accounts.
3. He's 6'7" and reportedly weighs over 300 pounds.
4. He's really into bubbles:
5. He wears his clothes in hot tubs:
6. He's a ladies man:
7. He owns a $30 million mansion near Auckland, New Zealand:
(Although many sites are reporting this,,,, it is believed that ... dotcom doesn't own the mansion
he rents it, he couldn't buy it due to legal issues- Ladybbird)
8. He also owns these giant giraffe statues:
9. He's not a vegetarian:
10. He tried to eat Bruce Willis:
11. He has a car with the license plate: "GUILTY".
He also had a Rolls Royce with the license plate: “GOD".
Other luxury cars have plates that say: "MAFIA," "EVIL," and "STONED."
He drives around on golf courses in his Mercedez-Benz
12. His nickname is "Dr. Evil".
13. He likes posing like this:
Pictures via Tonteria
Kim already has convictions for other serious things before he ever started his Mega Group. I chose not to post the full info. on that, but here is a brief summary:
Kim Schmitz (aka Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor, Kimdotcom)
Kim Dotcom, is a German-Finnish businessman who rose to prominence during the dot-com bubble and was convicted of insider trading and embezzlement in its aftermath. He legally changed his surname to Dotcom circa 2005
Schmitz, a convicted criminal, found a world of press ready and willing to bite on his stories of hacking, some of which are almost a direct rip off another
charlatan (se7en). He leveraged this media attention into press for his promises of financial ventures that seemed to go nowhere. Each time he pops up, the media seems
to conveniently forget his history and past in a meaningful way. Rather, the media latches on to the highlights that make the story interesting, not the history of
lies and failure. This may be one of the better cases demonstrating that media outlets want sensationalism, not the truth.
* 2012-01-18 - Kim [Schmitz|Dotcom|Tim Jim Vestor] (aka Kimble) Indicted for in Criminal Enterprise "Mega Conspiracy"
* 2012-01-18 - Kimble's Criminal Past
* 2011-08-04 - The mystery man behind Megaupload piracy fight (CNET)
* 2010-2011 - Boy Sees House, Boy Wants House, Boy Gets House, Boy is Kimble, Boy Loses House (Various sources)
* 2002-05-28 - Kimble/Schmitz gets 20 months suspended sentence (The Reg)
* 2002-01-21 - Osama Hunter-Hacker Busted (Wired)
* 2001-12-12 - kimschmutz.de - An entire web site dedicated to debunking Kimble
* 2001-10-25 - Bin Laden hack-meister in defacement, financial debacles (The Reg)
* 2001-10-24 - 'Millionaire' German Hacker Nearly Bankrupt - Report (Newsbytes)
* 2001-10-11 - Hacker's war on terrorism draws tepid response from experts
* 2001-03-07 - The Ex-Hacker Who Would Be Tech King (Business Week)
* 2001-02-02 - The fact and fiction behind Kimble
* 2001-01-28 - Kim Schmitz aka Kimble (telegraph.co.uk) and a challenge regarding his past claims and a letter to CCC asking if they can confirm Kimble's stories
* 2001-01-31 - Schmitz is no white knight for LetsBuyIt (Greenpeace / Citibank refute Kimble claims too)
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Below Info From Wikipedia
Early career
As a teenager, Dotcom became known in his native Germany for claims to have cracked corporate PBX systems in the
United States, and tried to parlay it into a career in data security. That effort led to his arrest on
charges of using and selling stolen calling card numbers. In 1994, Dotcom founded a computer security company called DataProtect. In 1999, DataProtect and IVM engineering presented the "Megacar", a Brabus-tuned Mercedes-Benz S-Class W220 which, among other features, had a Windows NT server, a 17.3" SGI flat panel display
and combined 16 GSM modules to provide mobile broadband Internet access.
In 1998, Dotcom was convicted of computer fraud and handling stolen goods, and subsequently sentenced to
juvenile detention for two years. According to a report by News & Record, he had traded stolen calling card
numbers he bought from hackers in the United States. He achieved early notoriety by being the subject of an
advanced-for-its-time flash animation video called Kimble Special Agent. The name is a reference to Richard
Kimble, the main character of the television series The Fugitive.
Dotcom later sold 80% of the shares of DataProtect to TÜV Rheinland in 2000, during the dot-com bubble. The
latter went bankrupt at the time of the subsequent market crash in 2001.
A large framed man, he is 2 meters(6'6") tall and weighs more than 130 kilograms (290 lb).
Insider Trading and Embezzlement
In 2001, Dotcom purchased €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company LetsBuyIt.com and subsequently
announced his intention to invest €50 million in the company. Unknown to others, Dotcom did not have the
funds available to invest, although the announcement caused the share value of LetsBuyIt.com to jump by nearly
300%. Dotcom sold his shares a few days later for €1,568,000.
Dotcom had also arranged and obtained an unsecured loan of €280,000 from Monkey AG, a company for which Dotcom
had served as Chairman of the Board. The funds were to be paid to Kimvestor AG. As a result, both Monkey and Kim
vestor went bankrupt. Dotcom expressed remorse, stating that he had been "dazzled" and had not recognized that
he would be unable to repay the loans.
In January 2002, Dotcom was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, deported to Germany, and subsequently sentenced to a
probationary sentence of one year and eight months, and a €100,000 fine, the largest insider-trading case in
Germany at the time. Dotcom also pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and received a two-year
probation sentence.
Megaupload and Related Companies:
Main article: Megaupload
Megaupload.com
Megaupload Limited businesses
On March 21, 2005, Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited, a Hong Kong-based file hosting and sharing business that
eventually became the 13th most popular site on the internet[33] with over 150 employees, US$175 million revenues,
50 million visitors daily, and estimated to be responsible at its peak for 4% of all internet traffic.
The Megaupload business' domain names were seized and the sites have been shut down by the U.S. Justice Department
on January 19, 2012, following their indictment and arrests of the owners for allegedly operating as an
organization dedicated to copyright infringement.
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