In 2012, online activists decisively defeated the Stop Online Piracy Act, legislation that would have created a government-backed internet blacklist. The idea became so toxic that content companies haven‘t made any serious effort to resurrect it in Congress

Yet a document leaked in the Sony hack reveals that the Motion Picture Association of America, one of SOPA‘s most powerful backers, hasn‘t given up on the site-blocking concept. The memo was drafted in August by the law firm of Jenner and Block on behalf of the MPAA.