Really? I don't think so! What about "every single user" who earned money in scrypt.cc?
There are always winners and loosers in ponzis.
And stop call scrypt a "criminal operation". It's just a ponzi site like many thousands others. No one in the world believed this was a real mining company.
You're an idiot.
That some users may have made money does not change the fact that every person who lost is entitled to a full recovery of their funds.
The site promoted itself as a cloud mining operation, it matters not whether you think that people should have known it was a ponzi. It is a criminal operation which took money under false pretences, irrespective of whichever mechanism they ran the financials with in the back office. No jurisdiction permits that.
Let's assume investors are entitled to have their losses returned. While it is probably simple enough to take the sum of deposits minus withdraws to come with how much someone lost or gained, it doesn't mean people will receive back those losses. For a point of reference one can look at the Madoff investment scheme which took investors for $18 billion. Probably no other case has had that level legal attention and been so successful in recovering lost deposits into a Ponzi scheme. So far efforts have recovered $10.5 billion, mostly through a large amount of lawsuits. However the recovery effort is unlikely to ever fully achieve full recovery and there is a great deal of money spent in the recovery process itself. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/11/us/bernard-madoff-fast-facts/index.html
I agree with mitch845 that anyone investing in scrypt.cc this year had to be aware of the extreme risks. Additionally the viewpoint that there isn't any mining at could turn out to be incorrect. However assuming there isn't any mining going on at scrypt.cc, it would probably be impossible to recover all the invested funds and to redistribute back to the original owners of those funds. In that case a partial refund would be probably all that could be expected. If there is some mining going on, them it would likely be better for the investors as there would be more assets to recover from.