While the public got reasonably upset about SOPA‘s overreach, and the possibility that it would be used to shut down websites with no due process, what they miss is that the federal government has been pretending that it already has that right under the last change to copyright law — the ProIP Act (not the same as the Protect IP Act, which was the Senate‘s counterpart to SOPA). The ProIP Act was filled with a ton of bad ideas. An outcry (much smaller than SOPA) at least stopped some of the very very worst parts of the original ProIP Act from being enacted, but there were still plenty of „easter eggs“ from the entertainment industry.