If anything, Kim is certainly brilliant at PR. With such a grandiose promise, he will gain wider support for his cause within the general population which will in turn cause more politicians to side with him. It doesn't really matter if he can pull it off or not. If he doesn't pull it off, he can always blame the FBI/MPAA for not giving him enough money (he likely won't get any at all). People will now hate the FBI/MPAA even more as they are "preventing" them from having free Internet, getting him even more popular support despite failing to deliver on his promise. Brilliant!
Kim dotcom hasn't proposed investing. He has shown interest in being the biggest customer. The risk of investing in the cable is huge, there isn't a datacenter in NZ that can utilize the proposed bandwidth increase. This is essentially a chicken-or-the-egg situation where someone other than dotcom will be bearing the risk.
Ah ok, got it. This sentence was a bit misleading though:
> Dotcom took to Twitter recently with a new-found passion, promising that he would relaunch the “Pacific Fibre” project for the country and deliver “free broadband for all [New Zealanders].” How exactly does he plan to do that? By suing the pants off the American movie industry.