ly2 from WF

Imprisoned Megaupload founder loses

__________________

Reversal Magnet

Seen this in the comments... is it true?

Yes he is the founder, but the owner of the Mega sites is a record label exec. Guess who's not being charged with anything or even being mentioned by the media?

skohh

CEO is American Rapper, Swizz Beatz




Also, this:

efeezy

I'm pretty sure I fuckin smoked that guy a couple of times on MW3...and I don't even weigh 350 pounds. Just sayin.

__________________

Yuckystuff

Snitches get stitches.

skohh

Sorry for outtin' bro

Yuckystuff

I was actually referring to Swizz Beatz. There's a reason he wasn't arrested.

Either that or he wasn't really the CEO and it was just a publicity thing.

skohh

In a different article, I did read that it was said he was the CEO but not officially...

mind is blown

pIZZaBOY

^ Lol those idiots were too slow to appointing him as the fall guy.

dreamache

#1 out of 15 million in MW3... yeah, that tennis court never saw his ass once.

dsiomtw

Just another dumb criminal that got greedy. What else is new. You'd think after he got busted for his previous crimes he would have quit while he was ahead. Some people are just plain stupid. They are going to make an example out of him in a big way. That fucker is gonna rot in jail for a long time given his previous criminal record.

I remember this guy back when he used to act like an ass on the Porsche and Lambo boards, and at the Gumball rallies, etc. My how times have changed. I wonder if his ballin' lifestyle for the past handful of years was worth the ass raping he's gonna get...

Crunk

not sure if this has been brought up, but they were only days away from releasing a revolutional music platform for artists to make money off of free music. Hmmm....

TigerUK

took his eye off the ball, spent all day playing cod4 when he should have been dealing with lawyers to cover his ass.

oh well, at least he didn't wast his life playing skyrim.

__________________
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4...2011192527.jpg

pIZZaBOY

wow all that money and... plays a shitty console fps all day.

webnet

I don't think he is really that smart, if he was he would have hid in his hedge maze. just sayin.

negro2k

his k/d ratio is only like 2:1 hes not the best cod player he just has more time logged than anyone. im willing to bet he has staff that played under his account 24/7

__________________
[starting stats: $0/day] [2012 goal: $4/day profit]

flaw3d

I agree had he stopped playing video games then he would not be in his current situation.

__________________
Hiring a sales copywriter.

Sonny Forelli

Let me know when any of you have 9 figures instead of armchair quarterbacking

lordothelog

Pretty crazy this went down here. I'm surprised he lived here doing what he did, all of the nuclear issues aside we're pretty snug with the US... real snug

zimok

Media industry obviously realized the impending PR nightmare if they touched Swizz Beatz.

__________________

You can't effectively ride two horses at once.

zingo

the words Twinkies and hot pockets come to mind.

kamired2

ftfy

Rooby

Pretty fascinating thought, though: If you had that much money, do you think you'd be living a completely different life? Would you still have the same hobbies, play the same games, hang out with the same friends in the same places?

__________________
The secret to marketing on the internet is to create you own mashups.

clyde

I'd think his COD tittle is the least of his concern right now.

Feds on his balls and all.

A lot of big companies have famous CEO's just for PR (attract investors etc) that don't really own the company.

i.e: Steve Jobs was fired as CEO from his own company.

__________________

Yuckystuff

You have literally no idea of what a CEO is do you?

clyde

I'd like to think I do. Which part of my interpretation do you disagree with?

__________________

dsiomtw

I think maybe you mean board members not CEOs. CEOs are kinda important and all that...

dsiomtw

Lots of people on this forum could make 9 figures doing something totally illegal.

efeezy

CEO's, COD, there's way too many letters floating around that I don't understand.

__________________

Yuckystuff

Being the CEO has absolutely nothing to do with ownership in a company. The CEO runs the day to day operations of a company and may or may not have an ownership stake in a company. The reason a CEO can be fired from a company isn't evidence of a publicity stunt. it's just evidence that the board of directors felt the need to go in a separate direction and fired his ass.

Steve jobs was fired from Apple because the Board of Directors wanted him out. He didn't own the company anymore at that point, although in his case I'm sure he still owned a nice chunk (5-10% maybe).

You seem to think the CEO is the owner, and that is almost never the case (unless you're dealing with a really small company). And no large company is going to hire a CEO for shits and giggles either.

clyde

I don't think CEO is the owner, although that may be the case. I was actually arguing otherwise. A lot of companies that wanna go public appoint CEO's with specific credentials to boost stock prices eventhough the CEO has no background in that specific industry. (i.e: The movie 'Tucker')

I said "a lot of companies have CEO's for PR that don't actually own the company". Maybe you misconstrued that?

I mentioned Steve got fired to demonstrate that being the owner of a company doesn't mean you get to be CEO.

In the case of MegaUpload, I know for a fact Swiss beatz don't own Megaupload LTD or involved in the day to day operation so it must've been for a PR purpose (i.e: to gain support from musicians). Have you seen the video Swiss beatz made with all the artists signed under Swiss beatz?

They're also launching a musician/artists-reward site that pays musican 90% of whatever they made so this further establish my assertion.

__________________

Yuckystuff

Yes, because that sentence implies that normally the CEO is the owner.

As far as companies hiring CEO's for publicity - give me some examples. If a company is about to go public, the last thing they want to do is hire a CEO that's just a figurehead.

Sonny Forelli

Sure, but let me know when it happens. It's easy to speculate with a few million in the bank. 100milli is 'take big risk and figure you can settle it out in court' type money. Don't think any of us had expected to see racketeering charges on this..

clyde

It's not a rare thing that a CEO owns a share of a company he's directing. I was saying that it's not necessarily always true.

As for hiring CEO's for publicity, megaupload is one example. A figurehead that's famous with some credentials in the music industry will appeal to investors/pensioners if Kim launched his musician-reward site before they go public, as opposed to a CEO who's been convicted of credit card fraud.

I can give you more examples but they will be companies from third world countries, it happens all the time, Prime Minister's cousin appointed as CEO = stocks go up 30%/day. The stock market is highly speculative in poorer countries.

__________________

Falian

Clyde and Yuckystuff, you both are right.

Yucky, you're not going to find very many "PR CEO's" in the Fortune 500, although you may find a few if you look carefully enough. Most CEO's are exceptionally good at management and execution.

However, CEO is just a title. You can appoint anyone as CEO and it doesn't necessarily mean they are running the show. It looks like Megaupload was trying to do this and i'm sure many other companies have successfully done this. Heck, if I was opening some sort of Home Furnishing company, i'd get Martha Stewart to be the "CEO" and just run the day-to-day as President. It'd be great PR.

Remember guys, most things in life aren't Black and White, there's a lot of shades of grey.

Oh and Clyde, FYI, Steve Jobs wasn't fired as CEO. He was fired by the CEO, John Scully.

__________________
Watch my webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxISw...&feature=g-upl

Yuckystuff

I'd keep arguing with you but you keep backing further away from your original post.

clyde

There's nothing to argue about really, just a misunderstanding.

We don't really disagree on anything (from my original post).

__________________

pocketrockets

Fyi, Steve Jobs was never fired from Apple - he was demoted and later resigned himself.

__________________

Jeeta

Here's a video of Kim street racing in Morocco.

Netphase

Blocked by Universal Music Group.

Human

Word on the street is that Azaros is the screenname used by his giraffe.

__________________
It's only after you've lost everything when you're free to do anything.

I used to be a shit poster. Now I try not to be.

mimoza3

had more respect for the guy before i saw him waving him arms like a little girl...

kamired2

If you know German check this out


The Harald Schmidt Show is a reputable night time program in Germany. Pretty interesting how he bought an interview there (how it is conducted makes that pretty obvious) to better his image.
Guy knew how to make money and didn't hesitate to brag about it. Certainly didn't find any ethical issues with what he was doing either LOL

Jeeta

Try a European proxy.

Here's another one, see if this one works.