He has done some shady stuff in Germany with stocks
then used those proceeds to launch his other businesses
I really enjoyed Megaupload & rapidshare those were almost as good as the WaReZ days if not better: direct links to any digital content without waiting for seeders
It's a shame. Arresting Dotcom won't do anything to curb piracy in fact it would raise the stakes even higher and more untraceable leading to more uncensored content that would be deemed "harmful"
Dotcom should've chosen Russia or China instead of NZ but obviously the quality of life isn't quite up to par with NZ. Russia dacha outside moscow would've been great for him without worries of US extradition.
Amiga (never heard of him during my scene time), then his alleged mobile ISDN service, MEGA.
He seemed like the shady poster child for every trend who got stopped before jumping once more publicly on Crypto.