Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega [video]

[rgrieselhuber]

Lost respect for him when I learned that he's a rat.

[vex]

A rat? What is this, Compton?

[gum_ina_package]

Wait what? I'm not familiar with this.

[dannyrosen]

Not entirely the most impartial exposé, but entertaining nonetheless

[bertil]

As are all Vice shows: always thrilling, generally subjective and partial to a fault. Reminds me of XIXth century travelers, and how surprisingly revealing those remained, if properly annotated.

Their most commonly quoted ‘documentary’ as the extreme of that lack of journalistic value is on Scopolamine (a compound commonly used in pharmacy) and the fear its instills as a will-bending drug in Colombia: it doesn't feature a pharmacist explaining that the fears are pointless, just a scrawny hipster wondering if anyone has actually witnessed an incident. It's a great case of ethnography and which-hunting, but the omission (presumably intention to keep the sensationalist value of the piece) make it fails as an investigation.

[adamsrog]

I don't doubt that Kim Dotcom is a very interesting guy, but that piece was complete garbage.

[jds375]

Cool piece. Looks like he's having a good time. How is Mega? I haven't tried it out yet. Is it worth checking out?

[mwilcox]

The only thing that's stopping me from completely switching over from Dropbox (I use Google Drive a bit too, but mainly for Docs) is the lack of a Sync client. They're beta testing it at the moment, but its still a little buggy and time limited. Apart from that though, it's a fantastic service. The web app is speedy, download times are great, and with the encryption I'm a lot more comfortable storing private docs than I would be on Dropbox.

The Android app does photo backup too, which is one of the main things I currently use Dropbox for.

[GigabyteCoin]

It's quite fast. I use it fairly regularly to transfer (business related) files between remote servers at high speeds.

[DonGateley]

The most intriguing character of our times. I hope he portends the future.

[RDeckard]

Kim Dotcom is a maverick!

[GigabyteCoin]

This article would have been more accurately titled "Kim Dotcom: The Man" imho.