Quote from: last2come222 on February 21, 2014, 11:30:25 AM

That's really difficult situation. I also don't think it is good to ask help from the Feds. It will work only with U.S. companies.

The feds can and do go after offshore companies. The online poker busts are a good example of this.

Situations like this boil down to a matter of preference. "The community" is not some monolithic entity run by a committee or a democracy in which the majority preference prevails. People have different philosophies regarding Bitcoin and want different solutions when a crisis happens.

You can discuss the philosophical issues regarding involving authorities in the problems of Bitcoin services until you're blue in the face but people have the right to act in their own best interest in situations like this and to seek punishment of wrongdoers if that's what they believe will lead to other services being less reckless. It's not as though not involving the authorities has had a great track record in the past.