A lot of this is entrapment as lawyers and officials would upload copyrighted stuff and then get judges to order court orders to shut them down. This was done to BBSes before the world wide web as well. Since anyone could upload to a BBS, they uploaded copyrighted stuff and then busted the BBS owner soon later. Only the corporate multiline BBSes got left, and now they are doing it to web sites.

I used to run a few web sites, had to disable my FTP server because of all the cracking attempts to crack the password of accounts for it, after I disabled uploads from the anonymous account. Someone was uploading copyrighted stuff and other crap, I deleted it after disabling the anonymous account, and so they went after the other accounts forcing me to shut down the FTP server. So then they tried to crack into the accounts for the web server itself. I eventually took the web sites down, as IPs from around the world tried to crack my web server and a simple IP block could not stop them.