No, they knew. alot of people complained about it and so there way of "fixing" the problem was to put a small little banner on megaupload.com
as if that would make people care less about the stuff they cant get back anymore.
Well they can go fuck themselves, as if putting a goddamb little banner on the front page of the website to say "Thats right your stuff is gone FOREVER! And we don't give a shit" is gonna help at all, they might as well go and take down every single file-hosting website like its gonna stop internet piracy.
Its like those idiots who burn down bars saying its gonna stop ppl getting drunk. (Yes, that happened a while back) there are some real idiots on this earth.
EDIT
In justifying the right to destroy or taking lots of peoples property simply because a minority of ppl decide to upload warez does not fucking add up, in the same logic we can't let a minority (as in a small number of overpowered dumb ass American politicians) take away our property in order to stop piracy, simply said this changes NOTHING, ppl will simply upload via torrents, irc, or ftp backups. In the end destroying the internet to destroy piracy does not and will not work, people will always find other ways of freely sharing products 'illegally' if you ask me those congress people probably don't actually give a fuck about whether it changes piracy at all anyways.
EDIT #2
This might sound crazy , but lets be honest here, if America can justify taking down megaupload on the basis that a small number of people were abusing the system by uploading copyrighted software AND (lets not forget Iraq) justify invading Iraq simply because they had possession of a WMD or because they had a dictator then the world can justify invading America for the possession of (alot of) WMD's and the promotion of/trading of drugs worldwide. Not only has America tried to enforce the law of taking control of all WMD in the world they have also invaded many countries, simply said I ask myself sometimes "Why on earth has God given America; one of the worlds dumbest countries; half the worlds wealth and suck influence and might over the world?"