SOPA isn't going to anything most of pirating stuff is based outside of the US because the corporations there push the government into throttling the swashbuckling fiends. Pirating is serious business! But Firus is right artists make like no money off of actual record sales that pretty much all goes to producers, artists traditionally make their money on tours and concerts.
So yeah I mean basically every torrent site is based outside of US, every site that might get in a bit of trouble with the US government generally tends to move to outside servers.
The USA may try stop its own people from pirating (an effort in vain with the download of simple applications people can pirate anonymously), but the fact of the matter is, the majority of people who pirate are actually people from every other country in the world lol, and copyright isn't taken as some divine law.
It's simple, the agenda is to snoop in and control more of its citizens' internet traffic (smart move), the move that wasn't so smart was the fact the government thought people would overlook the obvious invasions of privacy for something as petty as copyright. The reason the Patriot Act got passed was because terrorism and fear of attack is something people are willing to overlook loss of liberties to counter, but preventing a bunch of fat cats and attention *****s who most people believe are too rich for their own good and don't even deserve the extent of their wealth from getting richer isn't exactly going to motivate them to give up all their freedoms.
But Obama will find a way to screw you out of everything because he wants the government to control when you go to the toilet and when your sister gets her period.