Agreed, and I (and at least one other person has did the same) have been making references to American Alcohol Prohibition. Ban booze production and distribution, and you end up with an "underground" economy doing what's supposed to be banned.
And I'm quoting this from a similar post I made on another site:
People already know enough, probably too much, if you wanna take it into that context. This is the kind of stuff that could potentially break an entire planet, but in my opinion, it would take far more government power in the entire world to even enforce SOPA. And SOPA is mere child's play; There are a lot of bigger things that can break a planet, and they don't have to be copyright or piracy laws... All it has to do is concern the population, that's it.
You're forgetting (or maybe not) that the US is a democracy, a representative democracy, for that matter. The people have the power to vote in people to do the governing for them, and if the people don't like that person, they can simply vote for someone else in the next election. Well, what do you know? It's 2012. And you know what that means,...