To tie this back to the issue, I think SOPA taxes the Google's, Facebook's, etc of the world in an attempt to deal with piracy, which will only increase our costs as citizens for those services and not really solve the problem. Similarly, we also pay taxes to imprison drug offenders whilst drugs continue to be consumed at will.
Maybe "sharing" is a basic human need, just like doing sex. Maybe making "sharing" illegal is exactly as having to get a certificate to be allowed to have sex.
Music artists have always made good money from concerts. And they are still making much more money from concerts than from album sales. And in a time when album sales where justified by the scarcity created by the distribution model, it made sense. But now that distribution costs over the Internet are zero, the scarcity is only artificial.
The music industry also considered tapes and CDs to be the plague that will destroy their industry because anyone could make copies. But then they embraced these storage mediums and made even more profit. So what the fuck?