Quotes by Kim Dotcom

About Kim Dotcom:

Kim Dotcom is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur, businessman, and political party founder who resides in New Zealand. He has been accused of criminal copyright infringement and a host of derivative charges, such as money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud, by the US Department of Justice and is currently fighting extradition proceedings in New Zealand. He was the founder of now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload as well as its successor Mega. In politics he is the founder, main funder, and "party visionary" of New Zealand's Internet Party.
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I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

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The Internet is by the people, for the people.

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It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

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I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

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Because of my flamboyant lifestyle, because of me being German, the way I am, I am the easiest person to sell as a villain. I'm the perfect target.

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The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go - 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn't happen. Instead, the spy network is bei...

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The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

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I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.

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I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet freedom and peace in the world.

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I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with the big Hollywood studios and coming up with the most advanced and awesome Internet distribution platform for movies. It would make Holly...

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Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.

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If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model th...

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I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think it's cool. I have a lot of fun.

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I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this.

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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

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The U.S. government is saying that my website enabled piracy when the entire Internet is enabling piracy. Every ISP that connects people to the Internet is enabling piracy - Google is, YouTube is, everybody is.

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The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

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If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.

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Megaupload was a dual-use technology. You can use it for good things, and you can use it for bad things. If someone sends something illegal in an envelope through your postal service, you don't shut down the post office. If someone speeds with the ca...

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I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish.

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Author Bio

  • NameKim Dotcom
  • DescriptionGerman-Finnish Internet entrepreneur
  • AliasesKim Schmitz; Kimble; Kim Tim Jim Vestor; Kim Dot Com
  • BornJanuary 21, 1974
  • CountryFinland; Germany
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur