What part of keeping your information in one place is a bad idea don't you understand? Maybe that group would just decide to take the money and run and shut down all their servers.
I dont think thats the point this article is making, especially here. Its just showing that megaupload really wasn't the all nefarious piracy centric site that the DoJ/FBI is making it out to seem. It was being used for legitimate purposes, and those people are fucked because of our government, the ones supposed to protect us.
Having some people use the site for legitimate purposes does nothing to negate the evidence brought forward in the indictment.
If the owners took the money and ran would you not say that was a wrong thing for them to do?
That isn't a reasonable argument to make for regular (non-techie) users. How are they to know backup best-practices any better than you or I might know about the best-practices of a field that we haven't studied?
I mean, I don't think you need to be particularly tech-savvy to have come across the adage "never keep your eggs in one basket".