It was a raid to be remembered, one that could have been taken right out of a scene from a movie, except it was very real. The raid was on January 19, 2012, and it was Kim Dotcom, the former founder of Megaupload being raided by government officials complete with a swat team. Megaupload and its other sites was shut down after the domain names were seized, following the indictment and arrests of the owners for operating as a business dedicated to alleged copyright infringement. Later, Mega.com was launched which Kim Dotcom is an active Board Member on, but no longer participates in the daily operations of. On Monday, more than two years after the site was shutdown, six Hollywood studios, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Columbia, and Warner Bros., filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against former file-sharing site Megaupload, its founder Kim Dotcom, as well as others who ran the site.

The lawsuit for the most part contains the same complaints as those filed in 2012 by the studios, alleged copyright infringement both direct and secondary, mentions of premium subscriptions for profit, etc., and while the suit does not list the exact amount the studios are seeking in damages, it did state that the plaintiffs’ are entitled to the maximum statutory damages of $150,000 per infringement, and attorney fees plus any profits that the defendants generated, all to the maximum allowed by law. In the court papers Megaupload is defined as “A commercial online hub for publicly providing popular copyrighted content, including thousands of plaintiffs’ copyrighted works over the Internet to millions of Megaupload users without authorization or license.”

In the suit, the suit defendants are named as Megaupload Ltd. and its founder, Kim Dotcom, Vester, the majority shareholder of Megaupload; Mathias Ortmann, who was the chief technical officer for the Megaupload site, and Bram van der Kolk, who oversaw all the programming. The plaintiffs’ state that “the defendants did not take any of the simple, meaningful steps they could have taken to curtail infringement because they wanted and needed that infringement to make their illegal business profitable.”

Meanwhile Kim Dotcom is already facing charges, so now he faces a MEGA amount of additional charges, and is being sought for extradition to the U.S. A hearing is scheduled in New Zealand on July 7th.

Revealing the news himself, Dotcom tweeted, “Breaking: The @MPAA is suing me & #Megaupload. Read how the @MPAA and Chris Dodd forced Obama to destroy Megaupload: in the White Paper.

This lawsuit comes as no surprise, at least not in comparison to the massive raid that took place, that was quite a huge surprise as it was carried out. However, it appears that the plaintiffs’ may be concerned about the statute of limitations. We’ll keep you updated on future developments, so stay tuned.