That is such a moronic analogy, (no offense).
First and foremost, you need to actually read why they were being investigated in the first place. It goes a little further than users abusing their service underneath their noses.
Second of all, give me a break! It serves them right. They offered a service that encouraged and profited $100s of millions from stolen material. I hope every filesharing service shares the same fate. 99.999% of everything shared was illegally being distributed, only a jackass would assume they didn't know that.
Has anyone even bothered to see how youtube has changed after the Viacom lawsuit? They've set a precedent on how to legitimately run a service that is routinely abused beyond their control.
Youtube launched their partner program, but the underlying effect was denouncing the encouragement of uploading copyrighted material. The ONLY videos that display ads are original videos uploaded by those enrolled in google's/youtube's partner program or videos uploaded by youtube themselves.
If you attempt to profit off copyrighted works in their partner program; they investigate, permanently ban and delete your youtube and adsense account at the drop of a hat. Even outside of the partner program; upload a copyrighted video on youtube, there will be no ads, google will not profit off it and if you get caught they will delete your account or even hold you responsible for damages.
Now, compare that to what fucking megaupload and every other bullshit filesharing service does/did. They blatantly profit off and even encourage illegal filesharing; to put it any other way is an insult to everyone's fucking intelligence.
It's about fucking time, now take down the rest of the scumbags. These aren't little petty thieves, they're making 2-3-400,000+ million dollars and laughing at getting away with it under 'technicalities' in countries outside the U.S.