Kim Dotcom

Kim Dotcom is one of those people who turned a worldview into a surname, and that gesture tells you everything. From a Kiel-born hacker in the 1990s to the architect of a file-sharing empire that drew the full weight of the U.S. Justice Department, he has spent his life testing where the law's edges actually are. Now in New Zealand and dabbling in activism, he remains polarizing, and I would not pretend otherwise. But his relentless noise about internet freedom is sincere, not a pose. I am drawn to figures who refuse to resolve neatly into hero or villain, and he is a permanent gray area.

Name (English)

Kim Dotcom

Name (Japanese)

キム・ドットコム

Reading

きむ・どっとこむ

Born

January 21, 1974 (age 52)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

Origin

Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Occupation

entrepreneur / computer scientist / programmer / businessperson / hacker

• Official sitehttp://kim.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kim_dotcom/
• Xhttps://x.com/KimDotcom
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Dotcom
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60543

Tags

• Schleswig-Holstein
• entrepreneur
• computer scientist
• programmer

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.