Kim Dotcom: The 'Dr Evil' of the internet

Kim Dotcom - nicknamed 'Dr Evil' - led a lavish lifestyle funded by his file-sharing website Megaupload. But for his supporters, his dramatic arrest is just the latest skirmish in the war over online copyright.

Dubbed the world's most wanted internet pirate by the FBI, Kim Dotcom was at home in his New Zealand mansion preparing for a birthday party when a police helicopter swooped last week.

"It was definitely not as simple as knocking on the front door," observed one officer at the scene. Police had to hack through a series of electronic locks activated by the flamboyant German entrepreneur, before storming a fortified safe room where they found Dotcom 6ft 7in tall and 130kg huddled with a sawn-off shotgun that he wisely avoided using. He spent his 38th birthday in an Auckland jail.

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