BEING arrested on suspicion of internet piracy can have a disastrous affect on your Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) rankings.

Multi-millionaire Kim Dotcom is no longer the world’s number one player of the game on Xbox after his arrest last week, with charges relating to his file-trading site Megaupload, gaming website Venturebeat reports.

The Megaupload founder, who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz, has notched up 180,980 kills and only 86,241 deaths playing under the alias of Megaracer on the popular first-person shooter.



These impressive stats took him to the top of MW3 leaderboard , with Dotcom creating a YouTube video of the historic moment last month.

However, Dotcom was overtaken by rival Arazos yesterday, Venturebeat said.



Modern Warfare 3 - created by Activision Blizzard - is the most popular video game of all time, with an estimated 15 million users on Xbox Live.



“'If I worked for Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Modern Warfare 3, I would put up his bail money,” Venturebeat wrote.



The news comes as Dotcom was denied bail by a New Zealand judge.



Judge David McNaughton issued his ruling on but did not give a reason for his decision.



Dotcom was arrested at the request of US authorities, in a raid at his NZ$30 million ($24 million) property in Coatesville, 24km north of Auckland.



Megaupload employees Bram van der Kolk, 29, Finn Batato, 38, and Mathias Ortmann, 40, were also arrested in the raid last Friday. Another three suspects remain at large.



All seven were charged by the FBI over alleged violations of piracy laws worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

