Kim DotCom: Why didn't MPAA sue me?

Internet service providers are protected from liability for copyright violations committed by users if they obey the DMCA's requirements. DotCom said MegaUpload adhered closely to the DMCA's requirements.

He said that while individual copyright owners had been critical of the service, not one major film studio or record company had ever filed suit against MegaUpload or even sent him a cease and desist letter.

MegaUpload was founded in 2005. Wouldn't at least one of the big studios or record companies have taken him to court during that time? The government has said the criminal investigation lasted two years. That leaves the prior five years that the copyright owners, according to DotCom, did nothing to get in his way.