New Zealand before seizing Kim Dotcom's possessions. Now, officials may have to return them.

While the mess gets sorted out, the outspoken Dotcom isn't keeping quiet. In a television interview recorded at his mansion where he is on house arrest, a calm and well-spoken Dotcom insists he and his site are protected from liability for the actions of their users.

"We have been sued only once, never by any, you know, movie company or big content company and we have spent millions of dollars on legal advice over the last few years and our legal advisors have always told us that we are secure," he says on the video.

Dotcom also talks of the genesis of Megaupload, the viral growth of the company, his wealth and the mechanism that allowed content providers to remove from the site copyright-infringing links. He said, in fact, that members of the Motion Picture Association of America have removed over 15 million such links.

He also makes the point PCWorld raised several weeks ago: Piracy would be less of a problem . The way it works today, movie trailers are promoted all over the world even though films are first released only in select countries.