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Megaupload's Kim Dotcom to record album while on bail

Lyrics reportedly include "You don't need no copyright to dance."
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Kim Dotcom is used to speaking in public, but can he sing? (Sandra Mu/Getty Images)

Kim Dotcom, one of the founders of Megaupload charged by US authorities with copyright theft, is preparing to release a music album.

He was granted permission today to leave his property in New Zealand, to which he is confined as part of the conditions of his bail, in order to work on the album in a recording studio, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Prior to that he had been recording in his kitchen, according to the New Zealand Herald, whose reporter visited the Dotcom family home.

Sample lyrics apparently include "Sleep all day, party all night / Have whatever you want, whenever you like," and "You don't need no copyright to dance."

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