Well its a stab in the dark to see if they can continue running. I am sure if they plan at this stage to close everything down they would have done that now instead of this no Americans mess.
If this puts them in clear legal water then it worked. Personally I think taking advantage of the new crowdfunding laws is the way to go, and even if those laws were not being enacted then somehow becoming legal is a much better course of action. Getting entrenched now as the legal bitcoin stock exchange will be well worth it. For example NASDAQ is worth several billion dollars (Thats over 50,000,000 bitcoin)