Ask HN: Is SOPA permanently shifting our focus?

This could be due to me living in my own bubble (like all of us, in some way), but to me it appears as if until SOPA appeared, a lot of the focus and attention here was aimed at presenting pro-piracy arguments.

Record companies essentially scamming their artists, or the bad-bad settlement schemes which abused courts and sometimes ended up targeting innocent people, are a few example of why this was brought forward. Will this be forgotten post-SOPA?

What worries me is that, if we actually manage to "beat" SOPA, we would be happy with a situation where piracy remains illegal, despite that it may not be optimal for anyone, except for the film and record companies.

tl;dr-version: If we beat SOPA, will we still remember the pro-piracy battle we fought before it appeared?