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Kim Dotcom Becomes Proud Dad Of Twin Girls

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom became the proud father of twin girls this week. The healthy twins are the fourth and fifth children of Dotcom and his wife Mona, who gave birth to the girls at the National Women’s Hospital in Auckland. Jokingly, Dotcom instructed hospital personnel to send the placenta to the FBI for forensic analysis.

A month after Kim Dotcom was released from prison on bail, his wife Mona has given birth to healthy twin girls. The twins were born in the National Women’s Hospital in Auckland weighing 2.4kg and 2.8kg.

Dotcom and Mona already had three children - Kimmo, Kaylo and Kobi.

The Megaupload founder was delighted to report the news and the now five-time father proudly posed with the new Dotcoms.

“Two healthy Kiwis were born yesterday. All good,” Dotcom texted TorrentFreak on Friday.

“When they asked me if I would like to keep the placenta (weird question) I said yes, and please send it to the FBI for forensic analysis so they can verify there is no pirate DNA ;-),” he added.


Kim Dotcom and his twin daughters

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No names have been mentioned for the latest additions to the Dotcom household, but it’s a safe bet those on the shortlist begin with ‘K’.

Dotcom is currently preparing his defense against the indictment of the US Government, which he says will be “enlightening and maybe entertaining.” More news on this will arrive during the coming week.

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  • Arbiter

    Congratulations! Good for him. Love the FBI jab, here’s hoping there’s no pirate DNA.

    • Guest

      Yes, congratulation!

      If I was DotCom I will send the FBI some shit to because these criminals deserve it.

      • Anonymous

        How about diapers? Filthy ones, preferably?

    • Guest

      Yes, congratulation!

      If I was DotCom I will send the FBI some shit to because these criminals deserve it.

    • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

      I’d say I hope there’s pirate DNA. Nowadays us, the pirates, are much better human beings than the MAFIAA ones.

  • lolguy

    tl; dr

  • http://profiles.google.com/orfetheo Orfeas Theofanis

    Oh please don’t make that kind of articles… Especially if they’re gonna be in the main page…
    People come here to learn about file-sharing, torrents, laws about that stuff.
    I agree that Dotcom is a big figure in that business but talking about his life and his newborn children is too much!

    • Sense

      I agree, we don’t want to have a HollyTorrent article about the life that we don’t want to know of the famous people :)

    • why cry over nothing ?

      catch a grip !

      btw…. how the fuck do you know why other people come here ?

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

        quit crying, it’s a sunday, just be glad there was someone not too hungover to post something.

      • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

        That. I’m personally cheering on Dotcom and his family so it’s good to see they are doing well.

    • Guest

      I agree. What kind of BS article is this? Who the fuck cares about Kim Dotcom becoming a father? Give us some torrent and file sharing related news, because that’s what this site is all about.

      • Fakdatroll

         Crapazor Guest is Craporz so I craps in its mouths

    • Radioactive

      You read the headlines on the main page, and decided to further read into the article. If you are not interested in the life Kim Dotcom, don’t read the articles…
      TorrentFreak can only produce a certain amount of content daily. There is normally 2-3 news articles per day. By the looks of it, many are interested in this article. If you aren’t, that’s too bad

    • MadAsASnake

      Given the amount of interest and discussion about the legal issues and abuses by MAFIAA, it is perfectly reasonable to highlight real impacts to real people. The fact that people could be extradited and jailed for trivial civil offenses and thus denying kids access to their parents should be of concern to everyone. A lot of other file host operators have clearly made a priority call on this which is why we see them come down. This is the human side of that. It’s just as relevant as commentary on the impacts to O’Dwyer in his case.

      • Huh

        When did money laundering become a trivial offense?

        • MadAsASnake

          For it to be money laundering, it would have to be ellicitly obtained and being injected into legitmate cashflow. If Mega has DMCA Safe haven staus (and there is no reason why it shouldn’t) then the only issue is some private e-mails that suggest they knew of a few cases that might be infringing. Conspiricay it aint. Laundering it aint. These charges were added simply to GET the indictment – which is abuse of process.

        • check mate

          when it’s imaginary

  • Anonymous

    New Zealand Citizens FTW

  • Stan

    Who cares about that big potato…

    • Dfghdfgfd

      you do…. well enough to waste your own lifetime …. commenting about him

  • Anonymous

    It’s somewhat relevant as it makes it harder to extradite him when his dependent children are NZ citizens

    • Anonymous

      It sounds a little bit cynical though…

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      I don’t understand that. Maybe I’m just an idiot…

      If I have kids, can I still go to jail? Their mother is there to take care of his kids, no? I don’t see how the kids would enter into it.

      • Guest

        You can’t commit a crime and say to the judge, “I have kids, please spare me”. If both parents are guilty, both can be sent to jail, kids or no kids, it doesn’t matter. OP has no clue what he’s talking about.

    • Guest

      No it doesn’t. Marital/parental status has no effect on extradition proceedings. They proceed like any other criminal law event.

    • MadAsASnake

      It increases his claim to residency. That is not a reason to deny extradition – there are many better reasons for that – like the lack of a case to answer.

  • Vouze

    As his twin girls are now new zealanders, does Kim become a new zealander ? Which will perhaps change the way he can be extraded…

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      far as I know that’s not how it works. His kids are New Zealanders but that doesn’t change his citizenship at all. Just like an illegal US immigrant’s kids will have US Citizenship if born in the states, but the parents can still be deported.

    • Guest

      Learn the law numbnuts. You don’t become a citizen of a country just because your children was born there. It works the other way around.

      • Vouze

        I can’t learn the law of every single country in the world, and I wasn’t asking for USA or any state of USA, but what tells the law of New Zealand.
        And I hope it is illegal to deport parents of US citizen children.

  • Asdf

    have to agree, who cares?
    Unrelated to both copyright and bit-torrent, and the placenta joke was pretty stupid.
    MAKE SURE THERES NO PIRATES FBI HAHAHA

  • Concerned

    Seriously, who the hell cares about his children? This isn’t a Hollywood celebrity gossip website. We come here specifically because of that.

    Don’t lose focus, guys.

    • Anonymous

      Yea, who cares about human life when there’s more important shit to worry about like downloading spartacus.

      • Guest

        Human life? Ok TF please start reporting on personal lives and gossip stories of celebrities of the file sharing world from now on. Lets turn this site into the paparazzi of the torrent world. If Rick Falvinge is married, I want an article on his wife next.

        • Anonymous

          Is she hot? Spare the article and just provide pics. No insult intended, Rick. :)

        • Anonymous

          There actually have been several articles in the past about people involved with all sorts of file-sharing, even posts involving their lives outside of the interwebs. You must be new here and therefore unimportant. Get behind the red rope please there’s no room in the club.

      • Waka

        I don’t come here for gossip about “torrent celebrities”, I come here for news.

        • Anonymous

          Kim Dotcom has nothing to to with torrents, as such he wouldn’t really be a torrent celebrity, he’d be more of file-locker celebrity.

        • Waka

          That destinction means nothing to my actual point.

      • Concerned

        Yes. Who cares? I certainly don’t. Not when it isn’t relevant in any way. His children don’t mean anything in the Mega Upload case.

        This blog has readers because it provides quality information on a niche topic. If you stop breaking Torrent news and start gossiping about people nobody cares about as if this were some shitty Hollywood awards show, I and tons of other people are simply going to leave.

        If you want to preach care and love, go to your church, and take your elitism with you as well. This is a public site, not a private “club.”

  • Dmitri Bovski

    Congratulations Kim.

    Thanks Ernesto for posting this news.

    To the naysayers kim has and is doing more for the file sharing community than you ever will.

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  • Exploding Diarrhea

    Congratulations Dotcom !

  • Regged

    Who cares what that fat bastard does.I come here to read torrent related news, not about some family matters.

    • you must be butthurt bad

      don’t read it then…..

    • who u kidding ?

      YOU CARE

      You wasted your limited life’s time…. to comment about him

      If you didn’t care……. you would ignore this article

    • Anonymous

      Cool. So don’t read it. 127 channels on TV. Do you watch the ones you don’t agree with? 147 million torrents. Do you pass over the ones you deem not important to you? STFU!

  • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

    Can I get an article on here when I have kids too?

  • KO

    i dont care about that fat junk , what he doing is not to help file sharing community , is about how to get more money nothing more ,he doesnt care about file sharing ,he care about his pocket and his luxury life …f..k (h)im is just a fat lazy potato

    • Regged

      I totally agree with you KO. He is just a slimeball making a profit. You guys think he gives two shits about the torrent community? HAH, then I have a bridge to sell you :)

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        Industry shills is what I have to call KO and Regged…. that or the FBI doing some ‘psy-ops’ here.

        • Guest

          Actually you were the Industry shill all along. Don’t get confused boy.

  • Guest

    Good for him. It’s important that Kim be motivated to fight.

  • Guest

    here’s some file sharing news then

    Mediafire has disabled anonymous uploading, you have to sign up for at least a free account to upload.

    files that were previously uploaded anonymously are still available. You can still download anonymously

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      You’re joking? If you aren’t, that is seriously stupid of MediaFire because now they can be held to “YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS FILE WAS INFRINGING!”

      • Guest

        Nope, they changed their front page with the upload button gone if you not logged in

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    Is it just me or does he look a little downsy?

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

    aww, how cute. Congratz to fifth time dad :)

  • gollu

    Good news.

  • Guest

    Twins = Proof he’s hardcore, downloaded an extra kid

    • Anyone

      he made illegal copies!

      • FUKiN GO0D Comedy above

        Fukin hilarious … yous 2….. /_/…… ( when lol is overused …. speechless )

      • ayman

        But he owns the copyright!?

        • Desu75

          Pharmaceutical companies own the patents to their genes. It’s illegal to reproduce those patented genes. ARREST HIM!

    • OUR CULTURE

      meme it !

    • OUR CULTURE

      meme it !

    • OUR CULTURE

      meme it !

  • o_0

    TorrentFreak

    The place where breaking news, BitTorrent, copyright and birth updates collide.

    I get it that NEWs can be scarce at times but this story was not relevant or newsworthy.

    Reality check for Ernesto: Kim Dotcom is no Brangelina.

    /rant

    • 0_o

      your comment is not relevant or comment-worthy.

      #DoYouArgueInAnEmptyRoomAsWell

  • Anonymous

    congrats to Kim and Mona. please dont forget to make sure the twins are copyrighted before law enforcement try to sue you both!

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  • John Space

    Your daddy is a hero!

    You think they should make a The Dotcoms TV series?

    • Guest

      Kim Dotcom a hero? He’s a hero for making somewhere around $500 million off the backs of file sharers? ROFL.

  • Guest

    He made to copies of himself lucky for him his the copyright owner of those copys or else… riaa would go on the attack mode lol

  • Mr.Afghanistan

    Congratulations buddy :D

  • Anonymous

    Oh wow, way to go dot com! Too bad youll be rotting in a US jail cell and not be able to see them grow up.

    True-Privacy.tk

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      No, he won’t. The fact is that there is very little ‘meat’ and even potatoes to the government’s case thus far.

      The only real thing they have is that MegaUpload (not Kim himself) didn’t delete ALL links to a file and that file itself when one link was deemed ‘infringing’. Which is the right thing to do, because just because one link is infringing doesn’t mean that all of them are.

    • scared : use your vpn. fuk off

      you r a dik and a spammer.

  • Anonymous

    my best friend’s ex-wife made $19574 last month. she is getting paid on the computer and got a $395200 house. All she did was get blessed and use the instructions made clear on this link >>>> LazyCash1.com

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      My best friend got sick of seeing spam messages in forum posts so in a rage he killed his wife with a hatchet and then started out to hunt down PerryLuis21. If they ever catch him his bail will probably be in the millions and I’ll need one of these bonus cash grabbing jobs…

    • kode

      f..k off spammer scammer , and btw kill your bitch wife and after suicide is the best thing what you could do !

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  • Random Thanker

    Amazing how people can have the audacity to come to a free web site and then complain about content…rudely I might add. I’m hoping the juvenile comments are from juveniles.

    Thank you TF for providing this news souce. Sometimes we don’t say thank you enough, to everyone, not just here but everywhere.

    • Guest

      “Amazing how people can have the audacity to come to a free web site and then complain about content”

      Amazing how some people don’t hold a news site to any standards.

      Just because it’s a free site doesn’t mean that they’re immune to criticism. If they started reporting on American Football tomorrow, I’d bitch at them for that for the same reason I’m bitching now; it’s totally worthless info, and would only serve as an irrelevant fluff piece.

      Oh, and about the juvenile crack; A. You aren’t looking much better right now B. Look up the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. The internet brings out the worst in people. Torrentfreakers are no different.

  • JOEC08

    CONGRATS TO HIM. LONG LIVE FILE SHARING!!!

    http://WWW.EYE-SWAG.COM

  • Randy_Lahey

    Ok, this is worth commenting on because that picture is so incredibly adorable. Congratulations, you are da man!

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  • http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

    Congrats Kim and Mona! That’s great news.

  • Guest

    MegaUpload represented 25 percent of Carpathia Hosting’s revenue, and 30 percent of LeaseWeb’s revenue http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/whd-2012-legal-lessons-for-web-hosts-from-the-megaupload-com-indictment

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  • Mwhahaha

    WTF? You’re really starting to turn into a tabloid.

    For shame TF, for shame.

  • Asdf

    What woman in their right mind would want to touch that disgusting fatass?

    • Anonymous

      After you have a certain amount of money, being fat is no longer a problem.

      • Nexus_shadow

        Surreptitiously calling his wife / mother of his children a gold digger…nice… it doesn’t make you sound like a little bitter loner at all.. I’m sure it has nothing to do with you being rejected by every supermodel that ever turned you down or super hot girlfriend that ever cheated on you because your relationship was based on “looks” instead of personality/romance/love, good luck with the whole
        “forever alone” attitude….. douche.

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  • JJ T

    Proud? They will soon be taught as they grow up that daddy is biggest terrorist well according US anyway. He will probably be an embarrassment to them due to all this fake bullshit being brought up by US government.

    • Ionstorm

      I doubt it. Actually i will be very proud if the US government calls my father a criminal, or terrorist, or whatever, because this means he is a good person. Nobody with half a brain in the normal world believes in US government’s BS anymore.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/nicebikes Kevin Finley

    Dude is a moron though…..

  • None

    why are you guys idolizing him? DMCA BS aside
    wasnt he convicted on insider trading and embezzlement. i.e. bilking otherwise hard working people out of their hard earned cash; could of been you or i, or even your parents

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