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Re:Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service by yapcguy on Monday January 20, 2014 @12:08PM (#7090518)
> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud.

Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...

> he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money

Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!

Re:Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service by zwdr on Monday January 20, 2014 @12:47PM (#7090740)
>Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...

Please do a Ctrl+f again, I'm sure you wont find anything about HN or Start-Ups in my post.

>Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!

Dunno, guess some startups are shady, guess some don't. Can we please talk about Kimble now? You're derailing the topic here.

Re:Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service by ramblerman on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @07:49AM (#7094902)
Not really, he's trying to show that in the context of HN and startups kimble was doing what a lot of people do here, just using a different medium