Megaupload founder Kim takes his last stand on Dotcom

It's been a while since we've heard from Kim Dotcom - unless you follow him on Twitter, where the alleged Internet piracy mastermind tweets multiple times a day about privacy, government surveillance, and anything else that might embarrass the politicians and business executives he disagrees with. To dive deeper into the mind of Dotcom, Bloomberg's Emily Chang interviews him at his mansion in New Zealand . Excerpts

You've been under house arrest.What are the rules now? Where can and can't you go?

Well, I'm not allowed to leave the country. I have to report to the police twice a week that I'm still here.

You've said you're broke. Would you call yourself broke now?

We recently had a judgment from the court releasing $4.6 million for legal fees and living expenses. So at the moment, if that judgment is not appealed, financially, I'm in a better position now than I was a couple of weeks ago.

Have you ever thought about moving into a cheaper place?

It's kind of my last stand - fighting for my castle, for my home. I'm not going to fold over, you know? I'm going to fight back.

Do you believe in copyright?

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism. Extremism is if you are a Hollywood studio, and you release your content in one country first - in the United States - and then roll it out over a couple of months in other countries around the world, and expect the Internet community in all these dif ferentcountries to wait for the re lease. They have just launched Netflix here in New Zealand. The catalog of content that you can download here is roughly 10 per cent of what they offer in the United States.

But if it's illegal, and you're not trying hard enough to take it down, or you don't take it down, doesn't that mean what you're doing is illegal, too

No, I've tried everything. We worked with copyright holders, but we were also a small company. We were just a small company based in Hong Kong.We didn't catch up yet with the latest technologies, and we were not even given the opportunity to do that.