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What are you're general views on the act? And for those of you that are out of the loop:

The idea behind SOPA sounds reasonable. It came about in order to try to snuff out piracy online, as the entertainment industry is obviously not excited about the many people downloading their product without their permission. The issue is, however, that it doesn't really matter whether you're in support of piracy, against it, or just don't care. SOPA makes it possible for companies to block the domain names of web sites that are simple capable of, or seem to encourage copyright infringement.

This means that if Lifehacker happened to have an article or two that could be interpreted as piracy-friendly, our domain could be blocked so it's unaccessible by visiting lifehacker.com. What the bill can't do is block numeric IP addresses, so you could still access Lifehacker, or any other site that could be censored, if you knew that address. This is important because it means this bill can't do much to stop downloaders of pirated content. If a domain name is blocked, everything will still work via the numeric IP address. Basically, the bill will be no good at stopping piracy—what it was apparently designed to do—but excellent at censoring any web site capable of providing its users with the means of promoting pirated content or allowing the process. This includes sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, and many more. If it's possible to post pirated content on the site, or information that could further online piracy, a claim can be brought against it. This can be something as minor as you posting a copyrighted image to your Facebook page, or piracy-friendly information in the comments of a post such as this one. The vague, sweeping language in this bill is what makes it so troubling.

That is at least a brief-ish summary of the bill...

If this un-American bull is allowed to pass, im moving to Ontario.

With what I said before, now I'm not so sure.
I've seen a lot of hate on sites like Reddit, various places on Gaia, Facebook, 4Chan... Then hearing FOX News got me all paranoid.
Uhg...
What do you think will happen guys?

SOPA is bad. It's obviously just an excuse for the government to institute a dictatorial oligarchy (or at least more so than they already have). However, it's not congress' fault. It was the every day person who gave them the tools they needed to even think of proposing such an act.

Think about this: How many people do you know that stream music on youtube or download movies without paying for it? How many people do you know that have absolutely no problem with listening to the latest Gaga song before it comes out on album as if there was nothing wrong with it?

Now think about this: How many people actually say that listening to proprietary songs on youtube is wrong? How many would actually pay for the DVD of Watchmen, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. if they already had it downloaded/streamed on their computer? How many people would pay for the 8th season of Family Guy when they are already 90% done torrenting it? I guarantee you the number you come with will be NOWHERE near the amount of people who are against the SOPA act.

Another thing to note: The biggest argument brought against the SOPA act is its censorship of open media and public access. But how many people even watch their local public access channel let alone support it? I can tell you this much: I've been pushing my friends to support the local public access TV station "Akaku" for years now. Every one of them said something along the lines of "Nah I don't care about public access. It wouldn't make a difference if all the channels were commercialized". Now that SOPA is being brought up, 90% of those people (including my own grandfather to whom I've spoken MANY times about the importance of public access media) is saying that SOPA is wrong and impedes freedom of speech. I literally laughed out loud when I first heard that coming from one of my friends and I mocked them and bluntly told them how stupid and hypocritical they were being.

The main reason people are against SOPA from what I can see is because they want to pirate s**t all day long without fear of repercussions. The only people I don't mock are those who I know to have truly supported open media and freedom of speech from the start. You know. Those people that actually care about whether or not our country turns into a dictatorship. Not those damn teenage girls who stream Fallout Boy, 36 Mafia, and all those other s**t without giving a damn about anything that institutions like Akaku have done in the way of first amendment rights.