Shutdown is better than hacked though, right?
At least we can have hope of seeing our coins again. Maybe..
Not necessarily. I'd rather them be hacked for 2-3k BTC than shut down by the US government. It can become a long and difficult battle to get any money back from "one of the world's leading e-crime websites".
I think that if the US government shut down BTC-e that the government would have already put a placeholder page on BTC-e's website.