charges arise. In January 2013, Dotcom offered a $13,500 reward to anyone able to defeat the site's security system. Dotcom has been involved in the local community in Auckland. In December 2012, he announced that he would be playing the part of Santa Claus in the play MegaChristmas, run by Auckland's Basement Theatre. In a local ceremony on the first of that month, he turned on the Franklin Road Christmas lights and delivered a speech before the display. On 4 September 2013, Kim Dotcom stepped down as director of Mega and announced he was working on a music streaming service called Baboom. Dotcom says it will be more advanced than Megabox. On 10 September 2013, Dotcom announced that he would play 100 people in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at New Zealand's first Digital Entertainment Expo. On 25 December 2014, Dotcom helped stop the Christmas DDoS attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network by giving Lizard Squad 3,000 $99 one year MEGA accounts which would then be converted to lifetime accounts worth approximately $300,000. In 2017, the biographical documentary Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, directed by Annie Goldson, premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Discography Albums Singles "Megaupload" (2011) "Mr President" (2012) "Precious" (2012) "Good Life" (2016) References External links 1974 births Living people Businesspeople from Kiel German software engineers Finnish software engineers German fraudsters German computer criminals 20th-century German criminals 21st-century German criminals German male criminals Finnish fraudsters 20th-century Finnish criminals 21st-century Finnish criminals Finnish male criminals Privacy activists People with acquired Finnish citizenship People deported from Thailand German expatriates in Hong Kong Finnish expatriates in Hong Kong German emigrants to New Zealand Finnish emigrants to New Zealand Finnish chief executives Businesspeople in computing Finnish people of German descent German people of Finnish descent People convicted of embezzlement People convicted of fraud People convicted of cybercrime Domain name seizures by United States