Kim Dotcom

Also known as Kim Schmitz, Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor, Kim Dot Com

German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: New Zealand
Active from: 1974-01-21

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Discography

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Listeners: 8,256
Total plays: 91,914

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Quotes

“Everyone tells me not to say the things I do. I'm very direct, very undiplomatic. Everyone tells me to stop talking about my hacker history, about my lifesytle, but I don't give a ****, I've just stayed the way I am. Over the past few years I realised that if I was to run a company or a fund, I needed to be the captain and not listen to anyone else. I needed to be the ruler of my world otherwise it was never going to work.”
“[On his early history as a hacker] Every hack was a trophy. I had a big feeling of power because I was running the most important worldwide mailbox exchanging hacking information and I knew what was really going on.”
“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.”
“[Defending his purchase of a rare signed copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf] I'm a [video game] Call of Duty player right ... It's all about World War II and how you play and I'm a big fan of that. I've bought memorabilia from Churchill, from Stalin, from Hitler.”
“Well let me make it absolutely clear, I'm not buying into the Nazi ideology. I'm totally against what the Nazis did.”
“I think in another 100 years that book will probably go up in value times 10.”

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Key facts

Born: Kim Schmitz , ( 1974-01-21 ) 21 January 1974 (age 52) , Kiel , West Germany
Other names: Kimble, Kim Tim Jim Vestor
Citizenship: Germany Finland
Education: Middle school
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Years active: 2005–present
Known for: Founder and CEO of Megaupload , Mega and K.im
Height: 2 m (6 ft 7 in)
Political party: Internet Party (2014–2018)
Criminal charges: Computer fraud, data espionage, embezzlement
Criminal penalty: Two-year suspended sentence, Five months served and twenty months' suspended sentence
Spouses: Mona Verga ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 ) Elizabeth Donnelly, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 )
Website: kim .com

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Wikidata facts

Official website: kim.com
Image: Kim Dotcom-2.jpg

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Commons category: Kim Schmitz
date of birth: 1974-01-21
name in kana: キム・ドットコム
start of work period: 2005-00-00
social media followers: 1296305
pseudonym: Kim Tim Jim Vestor
name in native language: Kim Dotcom

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Kim Dotcom (né Schmitz; born 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand.

Dotcom rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a hacker and an Internet entrepreneur. He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers. He was convicted on eleven charges of computer fraud, ten charges of data espionage, and various other charges in 1998 for which he served a two-year suspended sentence. In 2003, he 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.