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One of the things I find fascinating about this case, is that nobody on the "anti-piracy" side seems to be saying, "the feds should go after the individual users."
If a company provided, oh, bank robbers with anonymous getaway taxicabs, and you could call them and arrange for them to help you get away from any robbery (as well as call them to help you get your groceries home, or get a ride from a party where everyone's too drunk to drive safely), the authorities might well focus on the taxi service as the lynchpin that allowed hundreds of robberies to take place. However, I wouldn't expect the banks or other robbed stores to say, "that's fine; shut those down, and don't bother going after any of the actual robbers; that's obviously too much trouble."
None of the copyright owners involved seem to be pressuring the feds to go after *the people who infringed their copyrights,* rather than "the people who provided a service that made that infringement easy." I haven't seen any articles about copyright owners demanding lists of users and contents from the MegaUpload servers so they can prosecute specific people who infringed their copyrights. It's almost like they know that small-scale infringement doesn't cause them any notable damage and isn't worth spending any effort to stop or punish.
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