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Apple Founder “Woz” Visits Kim Dotcom

While the U.S. Government portrays Kim Dotcom as a dangerous criminal, others have no problem being associated with the Megaupload boss. Figures in the glitzy world of pop aside, Apple founder Steve Wozniak is a prime example. When Kim Dotcom was on house arrest, “Woz” came over to show his support.

In January, the U.S. Government announced that it had initiated one of “the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.” That case was brought against Megaupload and its key employees, including founder Kim Dotcom.

This ‘criminal’ label might have deterred some from associating with the larger than life entrepreneur, but it certainly didn’t prevent Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak from getting in touch.

When Dotcom was released on bail a few months ago, ‘Woz’ flew over for a visit.

“Woz came to see me at my house when I was still on house arrest. He is such a great legend and totally supportive,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

“He was involved in the foundation of EFF and they are now helping Mega users to get their files back.”

“When I get my assets back I will become a major EFF supporter. That’s for sure,” Dotcom concludes.

Evidence of the meetup was posted by Kim Dotcom on his new Twitter account.


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  • Danny

    Dotcom looks like a tall Eric Cartman.

    • Dongs

       Best comment ever posted on tf srsly loled irl

      • http://2.gp/p7Nu Manuela R. Gatlin

        Shows that anyone hardly believes in what usa bitches have to say...DemoforFrank.blogspot.com

    • Guest

      And yet it’s the US Gov’t running around everywhere screaming “Respect mah authoritah!!!”

    • Andrew Lee

      ROFLMFAO!! Well played sir!

  • Guest212

    No, he’s more like a hairless yeti. 

    • Guest

      You’re more like a spineless troll.

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  • Anonymous

    any further info on what is happening over the Mega case and Kim? what are the ridiculous excuses the US DoJ are trying to use to stop giving people their files back, what evidence there really is to back up the charges, when the sources of that evidence are to be examined to allow a defense and whether any legal representation is to allowed or not.

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  • Anyone

    fat people unite! ;)

    anyway, I like Woz, he is the ghost of Apple past, back when it was still a great company

    • Ohqd

      Would be great to add Steve Ballmer too

      • Danny

        Steve Ballmer should just hurry up and die. Microshite have never been a great company.

        • Ricky Spannish

           Maybe so, but FFS, they’re a massive, globally successfull company ……………………

        • Mike Rau Soft

           I’ve never had a reason to like windows 8, but if it’s sucess will make you any more butt hurt I’ll buy a windows tablet, phone and a legit copy of 8 for my desktop. Ballmer all day erry day!

        • userjoe9066

          - Sent From His Computer Running Windows

        • Danny

          @userjoe9066:disqus

          Fail, sent from my computer running Debian GNU/Linux.

          @All:twitter

          They may be globally successful but they have never innovated in any sector they operate in, they are slowly being eroded by every other operating system out there (which makes me warm inside). They only ever buy up and steal other peoples ideas then market them as their own, really they are a successful marketing company.

          They recently got schooled by the linux kernel developers on how to write efficient and nice looking code, honestly the code they originally submitted looked like it had been written by a two year old.

        • tremor

          Actually they developed the beginnings of the tablet PC. It was just a peripheral device attached to a windows box, but it is where the tablet idea began.

        • tremor

          Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. The vast majority of pc’s in the world run windows by far. Any Apple computer similar in specs to a windows box will get you three times the price. That’s just one reason Apple will never achieve the market share it’s looking for. Not too much there insistent use of proprietary cabling, software, etc. The Gates Foundation has given away billions of dollars to poor and undedrpriveliged people and continues to do so while also encouraging other successful companies to do the same.  I could go on and on, but if that’s not enough to convince you, you’re obviously just another iDIOT. No, i’m not a Microsoft fanboy, i’m just not one of the sheep blindly following Apple’s shit. 

          “Wow, wow, wow” -Steve Jobs

        • Danny

           @4a5e20456e8759b03394e854f4b37206:disqus

          Christ. I wasn’t trying to start a flame war with my little joke. I managed to piss of Winblows and Apple fanboys. Not a bad shout at any rate.

          But anyway Windows is crap and Apple (post OSX) is overpriced crap. Apple are slightly better in my view as the OS is more secure due to the UNIX architecture plus they contribute a lot of code to the open source community. Microsoft doesn’t do a lot for open source and NT is a hunk of crap with more holes than a colander.

          Open source is the future of computing, Apple already realised this when they started the OSX project but Microsoft are yet to get the clue. In 10 years the computer market will have changed greatly and its only going to be a downwards slope for Microsoft with a continuing upwards trend for open source software.

          Oh and Star trek invented the tablet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Jake/100001193131528 Alex Jake

    Woz is Great!

    • Abc

       Woz was the brain in Apple.

  • The_seventh_guest

    Pirate of Silicon Valley salutes Pirate of the www

    Woz rules :-)

  • Han

    two big bastards making lot of money on the back of fools…

    • Guest

      The two big bastards in question are the MPAA and RIAA lol

      • Guest

        That sentence was an insult to bastards everywhere.  There’s no way actual bastards would want to be associated with filth like the MPAA and RIAA.  

        Jon Snow in particular is appauled.

  • http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

    lol, Woz looks so tiny compared to Kim.
    Anyways, it;’s good to see ppl supporting Kim despite this so-called ‘criminal’ label. Shows that anyone hardly believes in what usa bitches have to say.

    • Decimus

      All the circumstances are just so strange, that I don’t think the media can make the US look like they’re in the right about this.  The government was doing the dirty work for the MPAA and they’re under the spotlight.

      Woz may get “questioned” about this, or even get some grief, but it’s nice to see people standing up with Kim. With all the rotten things that the government does, I just can’t see Kim being that bad.

  • Remorka

    WAzaap, woz up Woz DotCom Kim might ask. Big money but what ever, I like it and “two of em fill five of me”…

  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    I should likely have just posted this only on Twitter, but many thanks to Ernesto and TF for posting the link to Kim’s new twitter feed at https://twitter.com/#!/KimDotcom

    And if anyone gives toss, I can also be followed at https://twitter.com/#!/Rob8urcakes – no surprise there then huh? lol.

    Here’s hoping all goes well for Kim and he beats these fascist down, not least coz the EFF are excellent too and if Kim can throw a chunk of cash their way that would be good for EVERYONE :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/dmitry.sychov Dmitry Sychov

    maybe they shared a lady one day..

    • Former Insider

       Kim looks like he’s eaten an entire one.

      • CG

        Maybe, but he’s a boss. So its okay.

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  • Guest

    No hint as to whether the EFF are going to support Kim with the upcoming legal proceedings then?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/Q3XLTAUAQ2ZSBVFS425HBH2HI4 Ronald

    as Brandon said I didn’t even know that some one can get paid $7731 in 1 month on the internet. have you read this site (Click on menu Home more information)   http://goo.gl/IjvvD    

  • John Space

    He is large. He contains multitudes.

  • Mark

    Good to see/hear  something like this, just wish Megaupload would come back no other company matches up to Megaupload…

  • theonlyone

    Ronald you are just a shameless faggot for spamming this comment section.

    Its good to see someone, especially an American showing support for Dotcom.

    • The guy

      I’m american, and I support Dotcom and Mega

  • Cap n Crunch

    Rumor has it that WOZ brought some gifts to KIM to cheer him up! 

    A box of Cap’n Crunch (that KIM quickly devoured) 
    A handmade “blue box” that plays the MEGA song tones 
    and,  
    A jailbroken iphone with free torrent app 

  • ken147

    Good god….Dotcom is huge…..

    • harry krishna

      is woz a midget?

      • Sensible Shoes

        No, Woz is fairly average sized. Dotcom’s just MegaTall!

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gear-Mentation/100003097514663 Gear Mentation

          Da dotcom bubble woz huge.

        • Daniel

          It wasn’t called Mega* for no reason…

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  • Qoaa

    I’ve notice Steve Wozniak has been enjoying his freedom now that Steve Jobs is dead.

    Since Jobs died Wozniak has embraced the open source community, showed support for the GNU public license, Supported jailbreakers across different mediums and is now supporting Megaupload founder.

    I bet Woz is fucking happy the old Tyrant Jobs is dead. Since I remember an old interview when he left he was nearly choked on a mountain of NDAs he was forced to sign that some carried terms as long as Jobs was alive. Now that Jobs is dead those NDA’s have expired.

    • Sensible Shoes

      He’s always supported open source. One of the reasons he left Apple was that he wanted to get back to basics and encourage enthusiasm in kids for grassroots computer use and development. Still a hippie at heart.

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  • http://twitter.com/joshtarle Josh Tarle

    What’s the difference between what megaupload did and what youtube does? Apparently google just has more influence with the US government. Maybe Kim should start attending those dinners with the president?

    • Anyone

      youtube was bought by Google, MegaUpload was not

      that’s basically the difference, the MAFIAA did not dare to touch Google, they sued (and lost) instead.

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  • Kevin Gaspar

    Dot Com came up with the idea of Megupload when he was trying to get up some stairs.

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  • I’ll Buy That For A Dollar

    That picture NEEDS to be on T-Shirts now!!!

    • tremor

      Was thinking more like toilet paper.

  • TankoFon

    I still think fatboy needs to go have another cheeseburger lol.
    Anon-Ways.tk

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  • Stranger

    A moment of silence for this Father – Son picture

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ETIA6JH4F63IKX33ZFPCVSU4EU Arturo

    When i tested Megabox before FBI seizure, that service looks like last.fm. This is innovation? MEH

    The only site really innovator in music for me was mp3.com, that offered a lot of music, an easy way to buy, good info about artists (between “industry” artists and independents), etc. Megabox should be close to this (or better) if it try to be a really innovative service.

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