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He is playing the "Megaupload is a legit service with legit users" card. And that may be true for some percentage of his paying customers.

Fighting for his customers data makes him look good and the DOJ/Leaseweb look bad. What's not to like about his strategy?

The hypocrisy?

Maybe, but that is an industry-wide phenomenon.

Kim is just stretching the limits while other companies keep a lower profile extracting money from the users illegal storage and bandwidth needs.