The federal government prosecutes people all the time civilly. Companies, for example, are rarely prosecuted criminally, even though they may break untold numbers of US laws. Why? Because those laws only prescribe civil penalties.
More importantly, we're $15T in debt, rising $100B every month. Priorities matter. Our federal prisons are dangerously overcrowded to such a degree that violent offenders are frequently released before their sentences are complete.
The federal government could have walked into federal court, obtained an immediate injunction and moved at their leisure to prosecute this man civilly. Instead, they took who knows how many armed, federal agents and other resources to perp-walk this guy into custody.
These are intellectual property laws - they should be prosecuted intellectually.
You realize of course, that you just asked the government, the United States Federal Government, the government of, by, and for Obama, to act civilly and with intellect.
What are you going to wish for next - a pony? :/