I was persuaded to petition against it by Electronic Frontier Foundation position statements like this one
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/1...-sopa-and-pipa. I think the other law you were referring to may be the Protect IP act but since that isn't law yet AFAIK it also may not.
I guess I don't yet make enough money in the business to care about piracy but maybe that's one of the reasons I don't yet make much money here ... In any case I understand that media and intellectual piracy hurts people here and in other businesses I care about and am interested in ideas about stopping it.
Happy New Years everyone ...