User blog comment:1dra7/We've Won./@comment-2186558-20120121104809

Well, us winning didn't amount to much. Why, you ask?

Megaupload- one of the largest sites on the web, and is supposedly responsible for 4% of all internet traffic- was taken down for piracy (and the owners of it are going to face charges) the day after we all did our attack on SOPA/PIPA and blacked out sites and the government changed sides. And taking down that site wasn't some spur of the moment thing, they had all of the paperwork ready and could have done it at any time, they were just waiting for SOPA/PIPA to pass so it would be more justified. When it looked like it wouldn't, they said "f--k it" and took down Megaupload anyways.

Long story short, those laws weren't about giving them the right to do it, it was to justify them doing that.