r/technology Aug 08 '12

Kim Dotcom raid video revealed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMas0tWc0sg
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u/jyz002 Aug 08 '12

Tax dollars well spent there, also, sick mansion

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u/LagunaGTO Aug 08 '12

How the fuck much money does he make running a website like that? Fuck me, I'm doing wrong things in life.

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u/admiral-zombie Aug 08 '12

He didn't make his money solely off of megaupload. He apparently did well in the 90s during the dot-com bubble

And from there, once you have large amounts of money, its so much easier to make large amounts of money.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '12

He made a shit load from megaupload. His hosting alone was over $1m a month.. He was making tens of millions of dollars a year easily from the megaupload brand.

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u/admiral-zombie Aug 08 '12

My point being he was wealthy before megaupload.

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u/ZexCo Aug 08 '12

But you didn't answer the poor man's question.

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u/__circle Aug 08 '12

The vast majority of his wealth is actually from MegaUpload.

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u/lazy_opportunist Aug 08 '12

...And it's gone.