"The police arrived at Dotcom Mansion in Auckland on Friday morning in two helicopters."
Kim Dotcom, just 37, and the “founder, former CEO and current chief innovation officer” of the now-seized MegaUpload (and “Megavideo.com, Megaporn.com, and Megapay.com”), has lived a lot more than the rest of us. Arrested yesterday, again, he did it the hard way: “Mr. Dotcom, a 37-year-old with dual Finnish and German citizenship, retreated into a safe room, and the police had to cut their way in. He was eventually arrested with a firearm close by that the police said appeared to be a shortened shotgun.”
So what’s he been up to recently? “Dotcom has little to do with the Auckland social circuit and lived largely behind the walls of the mansion surrounded by bodyguards and parkland. He posted videos displaying his expensive tastes, including driving a Mercedes around a golf course and spending 1 million New Zealand dollars on a public fireworks display in Auckland in 2010.”