Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke”, a post on his X account said Monday.

“I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” the post said.

Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to The Associated Press that the contents of the statement were accurate. Rothken would not say whether Dotcom or someone else wrote the post and did not provide further details.

  • daddy32@lemmy.world
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    Oh come on. There are definitely some people that ruined many lives and - from a certain point of view - would deserve death, but he is not one of them.

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      1 month ago

      He did ruin many lives tho. + he his a fascist crap 😬

      He litteraly had employees he told not to move to punish them if I remember right. And that is one of the most soft bad thing he did.

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        1 month ago

        I have no love for KdC.

        I would like to see some sources there, as I remember him getting arrested, and as far as I remember, the worst he did was piracy, hosting of piracy, and potentially illegal dissemination of patents. Oh and possibly hosting some potentially illegal VPNs

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          1 month ago

          He basically invented the whole “sueing people for illegal file sharing” industry together with his lawyer

          Fuck that guy

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        1 month ago

        Wishing death upon someone because they are a libertarian (or hold whatever other opinion you disagree with) is trashy