The tycoon of the internet, Kim Dotcom is involved as a defendant in various litigation. However, he remains very popular as over 700 people gathered to celebrate the political party he founded only last month with the main goal of promoting internet freedom.
His latest site will be released shortly after an agreement that costs the tycoon's venture into 180 million dollars
Mr. Kim Dotcom is accused of mass copyright infringement related to the Megaupload website that enables the sharing of large volumes files, which he founded in 2005.
According to evidence from the US Attorney's Office, last December, movies were "downloaded" up to 500.000 times for a period of six months from its website.
The FBI alleged that Megaupload defrauded copyright holders of $500 millions and received over $175 million in subscription and advertising revenue, while Dotcom himself took in $42.000.000 in 2010 alone.
Last week, Hollywood studios sued Megaupload and Kim Dotcom, and just a few days later, four major music industries followed suit.
The "party of the Internet", whose politics platform it will be crowd-sourced and its leader chosen through a process reminiscent of auditions for a TV talent show will run in New Zealand's September general election.
Despite the conflicting feelings expressed about it face of this eccentric person, people want to hear his voice in the elections, at least in New Zealand, where his twitter friends seem to have increased significantly.
Of course, he knows that his political career in New Zealand may be endless if the US Department of Justice proceeds with his extradition.
Member of his party points out that his popularity is not his eccentric personality, but his ideas. "The ideas that guide him are far above him, in a way they outnumbered him," she emphasizes.
Kim Dotcom accuses other political parties of manipulating the media with the overriding aim of destroying it. "Once the US Department of Justice stops dealing with me, they will start chasing Google, YouTube, Dropbox and all those pages," he scoffs.
