Well they're not smart you know
And not only that, their problem is that they do not accept reality as it is, but would rather believe in their own version of it. According to my observation, their denial of facts progressed exponentially each year, and currently it got to the point where most of them deny the reality per se. No matter what happens, they deny it and just keep saying old lies and fantasies that dragged them on for years - "sharing cannot be stopped", "you cannot shut down the internet" etc.
Even when AK started slaying them by dozens, they refuse to accept why that happens and just keep saying "our sites are legal", "here's doing it for money", "screenshots are fake" etc. But when you do not understand the danger, you cannot build a proper defence against it. Basically, I think what's happening is that they're fighting their own fantasies now of who AK is and what he's doing, and not who he really is and what his methods in reality are. That's why they're doomed to fail.
Not that they have a chance of winning anyway, because "cleaning up their act" means closing up shops for 99% of them. Who needs a site called pigsonic and who'll trust if to keep important files, where there's Dropbox around and other similar quality cloud storage services? Their only available niche is the illegal distribution of copyrighted shit, for everything else they're not needed.