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"Kim Dotcom has hit out at the US department of justice, comparing its case against Megaupload to the hunt for weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq war. In his first substantial interview since his arrest in New Zealand, the online entrepreneur accused prosecutors of siding with the American film industry to support its &amp;quot;outdated monopolistic business model&amp;quot;, and rejected the notion that he is a &amp;quot;piracy king&amp;quot;. He told the TV3 network: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s kind of like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, you know? If you want to go after someone and you have a political goal you will say whatever it takes.&amp;quot; Dotcom went on to say that the ongoing legal battle Megaupload faces is based on &amp;quot;fabrications and lies&amp;quot;, arguing that numerous other companies offer similar cloud-based filesharing services. He described the indictment against him as a &amp;quot;maliciously designed... press release&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;If the business model would be one where everyone has access to this content at the same time, you know, you wouldn&amp;#039;t have a piracy problem,&amp;quot; he added.  &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s really, in my opinion, the government of the United States protecting an outdated monopolistic business model that doesn&amp;#039;t work in the age of the internet and that&amp;#039;s what it all boils down to. I&amp;#039;m no piracy king, I offered online storage and bandwidth to users and that&amp;#039;s it.&amp;quot;  Dotcom was released on bail on February 22 under the conditions that he would wear an electronic tag and refrain from using the internet. His extradition trial begins in Auckland in August. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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