Credit for this comment goes to Andrew Dickson.
Found atop the comments here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sopa-jeffrey-katzenberg-chris-dodd-piracy-battle-284869

“If SOPA or PIPA had passed, the group After The Smoke could have shut down all of UMG’s web sites and had them black listed from the DNS and ISP’s simply because one of their signed artists stole a portion of a copyrighted song from an independant artist and the file was uploaded. UMG’s site would still be there, just no one could connect to it since all connections to it would be blocked on the ISP’s network, and for those that don’t understand how the internet works… even if you don’t use that ISP, you’re still sending the message through their network in order to get to the destination. If the ISP blocks that destination, you can’t reach it. If you can’t reach it because it’s been black listed on the connection that gets you there, that is called black listing! :O Amazing!

Of course UMG would have just bought whomever they needed to and it would have amounted to corporate scum getting away with whatever they wanted to (yet again in a loooong list of similar events). What a shock that (just like the internet said) corporate greed and strong arming stomps out those that are in the right if it happens to get in the way of their profits or interests.

If you want to know why millions of people hate hollywood and opposed the bill, READ THEIR CONCERNS. There was 0 effort from hollywood to listen. There was ample chance to play nicely. There were many efforts taken by the tech industry to negotiate and bring up the problems because almost every person in the tech industry that protested SOPA/PIPA and ACTA/TPP/PCIP/etc supports the fight against piracy. What we do not support is that the bills do absolutely nothing to stop the problem they claim to be targetting. They target every single last person in the hopes that nuking the entire world will kill off the relatively small number of really bad pirates. Not only that, but then hollywood thinks that they can simply throw more money at the politicians to get their way. Then they start making up dirty scathing lies and throwing false numbers and completely untrue rhetoric around, and raging like a spoiled child that can’t stand not getting their way every single time anything happens.

If you do not understand how the internet works, do not try to tell those of us in the tech industry how to make the tech industry function to serve your purposes. You need to work with the system in place.

We don’t tell you how to film, we don’t tell you how to act, we don’t tell you how to produce movies, we don’t tell you how to encode and format the files (although we clearly should since a vast majority of movies done in “HD” are done wrong), we don’t tell you what duration to make movies, we don’t tell you how many sequels to make, we don’t tell you how many frames per second you need to use (although again we probably should), we don’t tell you what to negotiate as your wages, we don’t tell you how to distribute the movies (although again we should since making your content unavailable for legitimate purchase encourages illegitimate means which you STILL don’t get…), we don’t tell you who to star in the movies, we don’t tell you how to do visual effects, we dont’ tell you how to set the ambiance of the scene, etc, etc, etc. We don’t make hollywood function to serve our purpose, we watch whats made and work with the system that is in place. The system is broken, and the content that is designed purely to be distributed and watched and listened to and enjoyed cannot be distributed because it’s not available, cannot be watched because it’s not available, cannot be listened to because it’s not available, and cannot be enjoyed because it’s not available. If it is not available, people will try to get it, and upon finding they can’t get it legally, they will turn towards piracy to get what you apparently do not want to make available. If this was not true, iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and countless other digital options that are LEGAL and PAID for would not make it off the ground. If digital is all about stealing %&$# from you, why do we try to pay you while embracing better technologies if the option is available?

What the tech industry asks is that you not tell us how to make the internet work, not tell us how to make computers work, not tell us how to employ the communications protocols that have been in place for a LONG time and work exceptionally well, not tell us how to let you search what you want to search for, and not tell us how to control a means of communication that is designed to be completely open to all. So far, you are trying to impose onto every single aspect of our industry and force what works into something that you think is what you want, ignore every warning that is offered that what you are doing does not work, then complain that we must obviously be pirates because our jobs are to keep the IT world working 100% of the time, and we are acting in the interest of keeping it running 100% of the time.

You are complaining about the few people taking your intellectual property, we are complaining about you trying to take away our professions, our jobs, and in some cases, our life’s work. You don’t like it when pirates wrongly take transactions away from you, why should we like it if you’re trying to take away our entire livelihood?

That is what hollywood is missing, and it would be in your interest to respect that we are not mad about stopping piracy, but mad about everything else unnecesary in those bills. It is not wise to piss off the people that keep your communications running, your TV stations running, your radio stations running, your special effects running, your recording equipment running, your WORLD running, AND who also double as the very people that consume your product. You are targetting the wrong people, and despite the very numerous attempts at guiding your industry towards the guilty parties, you’ve basically declared war on the very people that have been trying to work with you. The gloves are OFF. We’ve played nicely, and you spit it back in our faces with your constant attacks, constant lies, and the MPAA trying to strong arm politicians into blindly voting with the biggest check book while completely ignoring and not hearing out anyone that does not agree.

No, hollywood is the one in the wrong, and the tech industry will not apologize for trying to work with your lobbyists while they arrogantly spat in our faces and openly mocked us with their corruption. You got a taste of just how many of us there are; be it the techies or the content consumers, and we are sick and tired of the crap. The protest was against “business as usual” where we get screwed. Get it right.”