{"id":4357,"date":"2013-05-12T00:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2013-05-12T21:47:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T04:47:21","slug":"the-mega-second-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/12\/the-mega-second-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mega-rrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

from FORBES<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Inside Mega: The Second Coming Of Kim Dotcom<\/h1>\n

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Kim Dotcom, a.k.a. Kim Tim Jim Vestor, a.k.a. Kim Schmitz, doesn\u2019t act much like a man with a net worth in the negative.<\/p>\n

At 11 a.m. on a Tuesday he\u2019s driving me around on a golf cart \u201csafari\u201d of his 60-acre estate outside of Auckland, New Zealand. He weaves among a grove of olive trees with alarming speed\u2013he\u2019s removed the speed regulator in his fleet of electric buggies, and they can clock up to 19 miles per hour. We swing past his 2,000-bottle-a-year vineyard and barrel down a hill toward his $30 million mansion, complete with a hedge maze, a five-flatscreen Xbox room and a 75-foot cascading water display.<\/p>\n

Given that he owes millions of dollars to defense lawyers and now has to raise his five children on a $20,000-a-month government allowance meted out from his frozen bank accounts, wouldn\u2019t it be wise to live a slightly simpler life?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way,\u201d he says, leaning his massive 6-foot-7, 300-plus-pound body onto the cart\u2019s steering wheel. \u201cThat would be allowing them to get away with this stunt. I won\u2019t accept that. By staying here I\u2019m saying, \u2018Eff you! You can\u2019t defeat me!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cstunt\u201d Dotcom refers to is the police helicopter raid on his compound that made global headlines 15 months ago, timed to coincide with the U.S. indictment that shut down his ultrapopular constellation of Mega-branded websites under charges of hosting half a billion dollars\u2019 worth of pirated movies and music. Overnight Dotcom went from an underground entrepreneur to one of the most public and controversial figures on the Internet. His site domains, including the flagship Megaupload.com, are now the property of the U.S. government. His servers have been ripped out of data centers around the world and sit in evidence warehouses. He\u2019s had to let go of 44 of his 52 house staff as well as Megaupload\u2019s hundreds of employees. All but 2 of his 18 cars have been seized or sold.<\/p>\n

But today Kim Dotcom is putting all of that in his souped-up golf cart\u2019s rearview mirror. His new storage startup, called simply Mega, launched Jan. 20, defiantly a year to the day after the sudden destruction of Megaupload. It\u2019s already exploded to exceed 3 million registered users. His engineers tell me it\u2019s moving 52 gigabits of data per second\u2013that\u2019s nearly half the entire bandwidth of New Zealand\u2013and growing at 30% a week.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Forbes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from FORBES Inside Mega: The Second Coming Of Kim Dotcom Kim Dotcom, a.k.a. Kim Tim Jim Vestor, a.k.a. Kim Schmitz, doesn\u2019t act much like a man with a net worth in the negative. At 11 a.m. on a Tuesday he\u2019s driving me around on a golf cart \u201csafari\u201d of his 60-acre estate outside of Auckland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}