“relieved to go home to see my family, my three little kids and my pregnant wife”
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Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom, also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand.
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business · German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur (born 1974) · entrepreneur · computer scientist · programmer · businessperson · hacker · also Kim Dotcom, Kim Schmitz, Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor, Kim Dot Com, Dotcom
Born 21 January 1974 · Q60543
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2026· 6 entries
“because the brand—the brand Kim Dotcom—was poison for what we were trying to achieve”
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“At some point a judge will be convinced about how evil we are and then we are in trouble.”
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Public attention spiked: 5,687 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.1× the usual 470, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1368611693 by ~2026-43752-45 (talk) not a high quality source
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Stuff: Kim Dotcom employment case rushed to court before his potential extradition to US
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Public attention spiked: 3,771 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8× the usual 470, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: updates on his judicial review proceedings
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2025· 1 entry
Moved to Dunedin where he is receiving medical treatment
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2024· 6 entries
Newsweek: Kim Dotcom Suffers ‘Serious Stroke’ Amid Ongoing US Extradition Battle
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KSAT: Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US copyright case
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New York Post: Kim Dotcom — who cost film industry $500M with illegal download site Megaupload — to be extradited to US
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NBC News: Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand after 12-year fight with U.S.
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Dotcom announced that he suffered a "serious stroke"
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In 2024, Dotcom announced that he suffered a "serious stroke".
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: MegaUpload Founder Kim Dotcom to Get the Biopic Treatment
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2022· 1 entry
Claimed: ““Over 14,000 civilians of Russian ethnicity in the Donbass were killed by US trained Ukrainian forces and the @PentagonPresSec openly boasts that they have armed and trained the Ukrainians for 8 YEARS.”” — rated False by VOA.
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2020· 1 entry
That Dotcom could be extradited to the United States, but that he could challenge the decision through judicial review
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2019· 1 entry
“a final appeal to halt his extradition from New Zealand to the US”
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2018· 1 entry
The New Zealand Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling
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2017· 4 entries
Election lost: 2017 general election.
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A New Zealand court ruled that Dotcom could be extradited to the US on fraud charges related to Megaupload
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Campaign: 2017 general election.
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The biographical documentary Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, directed by Annie Goldson, premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival
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2015· 1 entry
That had first ruled in favour of extradition
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2014· 4 entries
Banks was found guilty of filing a false electoral return, with evidence from Dotcom playing a major part in the case
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On 17 May 2014, Dotcom announced on Twitter that he and Verga were separated and filing for divorce.
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“We were shocked at the uncharacteristic handling of my arrest for a non-violent Internet copyright infringement charge brought by the United States, which is not even a crime in New Zealand”
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“They're treating us like a Mafia, man! [...] It's unbelievable. It's only because they cannot extradite us to the US just for copyright violation. If they treat us as some sort of international criminal conspiracy, they can.”
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2013· 1 entry
Dotcom launched another cloud storage service called Mega, although he severed all ties with the service in 2015
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2012· 1 entry
The United States Department of Justice seized its website and pressed charges against Dotcom, including criminal copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud
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2010· 1 entry
And that Banks had asked him to split the donation in two, allowing the Banks campaign to claim them as anonymous by falling within the anonymous limit of $25,000
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2007· 2 entries
Dotcom met Mona Verga and married her on 10 July 2009
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Dotcom had one child from a previous relationship, who was born in September 2007.
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2003· 1 entry
Was deported from Thailand to Germany, where he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in November 2003 and after five months in jail awaiting trial he received another 20 months suspended sentence
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2001· 2 entries
Schmitz bought €375,000 worth of shares of the nearly bankrupt company Letsbuyit
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His main source of income was a company called Kimvestor, and he was known for spending his money on expensive cars and boats
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1998· 2 entries
On more hacking charges and convicted of 11 counts of computer fraud and 10 counts of data espionage
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For which he served a two-year suspended sentence
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1994· 1 entry
For trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers
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1982· 1 entry
That copyright infringement was a civil matter and could not be prosecuted as criminal fraud
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1974· 2 entries
Born 1974-01-21.
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In Kiel in the northern part of West Germany
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