I am particularly fond of this comment that I posted to the BoingBoing thread.
I think they could effectively prevent US advertisers from doing business with foreign infringing sites and that would significantly reduce the economic incentive to run a big media host (which is an expensive to do), but that sort of solution requires reasonable due process with a third party decision maker and not the BS process that SOPA described.
The Copyright Power is not willing to take that and run with it - they want more. It's a pretty stupid game they are playing - they have managed to infuriate every objective person on the planet, and they have tarred every idea that they have with the black mark of having been associated with a radical power grab, and for what? They could be busy killing the business model of pirate sites right now if they'd been reasonable about it, but instead they are busy writing nutjob opeds for the New York Times accusing everyone on the Internet of being liars and criminals.
This is democracy. Its complicated. If your job is to get legislation passed and you can't do it because you are too stupid and radical to listen to the other side's expert witnesses and come to a reasonable compromise, you have no one to blame but yourself.
