Google drive engineers do not run a side-business of actively selling access to drives with copyright infringed content, as far as we know. And there are many similar storage-services without those problems. MegaUpload and others got into those trouble for very obvious reasons, which others in the same business could avoid.
Yes, but the google engineers are not encouraging and supporting them with this, unlike MegaUpload. They are also doing their best in preventing it (as I heard), unlike MegaUpload.
their ideas about what they are doing (their ideology) being at problem rather than the their actual actions is precisely what makes this a political crime rather than a technical one.
The business model is completely different. Megaupload paid uploaders and charged money from downloaders. So there was incentive to upload popular pirated content to earn money.
Google doesn't do this. It charges money for storage space and doesn't pay anything to google drive users. There's zero incentive to share pirated content through google drive.
Just consider prosecuting Google drive engineers in this manner and you see how ridiculously political this is.