So, first of all: Does that look like recruiting to you? Looks more like a personal vendetta to me. If you're trying to recruit someone, you're most likely not going to do it by saying "oi, look. I'm gonna be the next chancelor, don't you wanna work for me?". Not even ironically.
"ACTUALLY making money on stuff" is great, probably more people should do that. But making money out of something and then selling out your customers (if you can call them customers) is not at all the right way to do it. And that's exactly what happend with Dotcom and his BBS stuff, where he was actually selling warez and denouncing his customers to the authorities, afterwards working for von Gravenreuth.
The funny thing is: In the mid 90s he was making money out of surveiling other people's messages and posts on his own BBS.[1] By the way, that whole story makes me nervous when I think about people hosting their sensitive data with him. That can't be good.
Now, back to the recruiting thing: Would you like to be recruited by that kind of guy? I for one completely understand the CCC people.
What is it with him that people seem to trust him and his businesses? I mean, it's not that any of them have prevailed and not been closed down by authorities after some time.
The funny thing is: In the mid 90s he was making money out of surveiling other people's messages and posts on his own BBS.[1] By the way, that whole story makes me nervous when I think about people hosting their sensitive data with him. That can't be good.
Now, back to the recruiting thing: Would you like to be recruited by that kind of guy? I for one completely understand the CCC people.
What is it with him that people seem to trust him and his businesses? I mean, it's not that any of them have prevailed and not been closed down by authorities after some time.
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[1] Again, German. Maybe I should translate that. :-) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz#Auftreten