What is SOPA?

A total of 145 companies and organizations lobbied the House of Representatives for and against SOPA, while 157 groups lobbied for and against its sister bill PIPA in the Senate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Despite the big win for new media, experts don't believe that this is the end of lobbying as we know it. The piracy issue was unique in many respects, experts contended. Content providers took a unified stance -- a rarity. And it was an issue that the public rallied behind -- also a rarity.
What's more, Internet companies may need to pick their political battles more carefully going forward. They could risk alienating their users, experts contended.

So even though lobbying wasn't what ultimately did SOPA and PIPA in, it's very much here to stay. 

comment: i think is good to know about this rule or law. because if it is aplyed it will afect us too. this SOPA thing os going against the piracy in enternet and is trying to respect the authors originalytie. u think its good to be agaimst privacy but bad at the same time because it will cancel alot of thins like free online games, chats , music, videos, ect. so we will ha no acces or we will have to pay. so im going against the SOPA law.!!!! because facebook, twitter, youtube and all those thimgs will be blocked to us!!!1