“One thing that anyone just becoming aware of these fights needs to know: the entertainment industry lobby is very, very good at what they do, and they never put all their eggs in one basket. While they love pushing for ever more draconian federal laws, they’re always working multiple angles, including international trade agreements, laws in foreign countries and… state laws around the US, which they can then leverage to get other states to follow suit. If SOPA/PIPA really fails on the federal level, you’ll see the same ideas pop up in all of those other places. In fact, we’re already hearing stories of such plans in all three things, which we’ll be covering in the days and weeks ahead.”