Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA 15 years ago
It seems to be a general trend across countries to get more and more restrictive on internet access and downloads.
There seems to be a good opportunity to do some good work here - I'm thinking of things like having a network between personal home routers to effectively bypass the control of ISPs etc, or encrypted distributed file sharing networks.
Pain is good thing, it means there is an opportunity to solve it, and the various petitions against this bill are a good start.