Kim Dotcom (født Kim Schmitz 21. januar 1974) er en tysk-finsk dataprogrammerer og forretningsmann som fikk mye oppmerksomhet under «dot com-boblen» og som i ettertid ble dømt for innsidehandel og underslag. Han er også kjent som grunnleggeren av Megaupload og andre nettsteder.
20. januar 2012 ble Dotcom arrestert og varetektsfengslet av newzealandsk politi, etter en sak fra amerikanske myndigheter mot ham, og resten av Megauploads stab. FBI mente selskapet drev med illegal kopiering av opphavsrettsvernet materiale. I et intervju med 3 News New Zealand, mente derimot Dotcom at opphavsretthaverne (da innen film- og musikkbransjen), hadde direkte adgang til å fjerne sitt eget materiale fra siden.
Dotcom har deltatt i det internasjonale vei-rallyet Gumball 3000 ved flere anledninger, og vant rallyet i 2001. Han deltok også i 2004.
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Date: 22 January 1974
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker comments on Fla's 'right to reply' statute, under which newspapers are required to publish replies from pol candidates who are criticized in eds or news columns; US Sup Ct has agreed to rev law, which has been challenged by Miami Herald; Herald criticized Pat L Tornillo, candidate for State Legi in '72, and refused to publish Tornillo lr in reply
Date: 21 January 1974
NY Daily News will install US's 1st 6-page-wide printing presses in prototype experiment designed to increase production by 50%; News pres and publisher W H James comments (S)
Date: 22 January 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS TV program 60 Minutes on Jan 20 presents rept by Mike Wallace on press junkets, in which Wallace names CBS as giver of free trips to press and its leading anchorman Walter Cronkite as 1 who accepted junkets in past; CBS spokesman repts that co's policies with regard to sponsoring junkets for publicity purposes are under rev and could be revised; program raised paradox that CBS News reporters were forbidden to participate in junkets, while CBS TV network several times a yr offered free trips to out-of-town critics for publicity purposes; Cronkite says he would never accept trip that had conditions attached to it; declines to comment on whether he would accept free trips in future
Date: 22 January 1974
By PHILIP SHABECOFF
Philip SHABECOFF
White House on Jan 21 acknowledges that all members of White House staff have been told to rept all contacts with news media to press sec Ronald L Ziegler; White House press spokesman Gerald L Warren concurs; says that new policy did not come in form of directive from Pres Nixon; says it is not purpose of policy to 'intimidate' White House staff members from talking to press nor is move to be construed as form of censorship; White House press corp members have indicated that they fear new disclosure policy will have inhibiting effect on news sources; Bill Moyers, former press sec, says in phone int that while he was at White House staff was asked to keep press office informed about its doings, but under completely unstructured arrangement (M)
Date: 22 January 1974
By TOM BUCKLEY
Tom BUCKLEY
book on newsmen assigned to '72 Pres campaign, The Boys on the Bus, by Timothy Crouse, revd by Tom Buckley
Date: 21 January 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Analysis of White House Telecommunications Policy Office Dir Clay T Whitehead's rept advocating cable TV's freedom from Govt control (L)