I&#x27;m not sure why everyone makes such a hero of Dotcom. He&#x27;s a jerk who got rich by monetizing other people&#x27;s work without compensation and in direct violation of their terms and wishes. I&#x27;m sure the same people lauding him would be angry if I, say, pulled their open source work and stripped off their copyright and name and claimed that I wrote it and used it to make money. Same thing.<p>If you want to praise heroes of the open Internet or encryption, there are tons of far more deserving people who create original work rather than profiteering off the work of others.