Ask HN: Who is likely to benefit from SOPA?

I am from India and know next to nothing about law making procedures in united states. As an Indian my experience is that the rulers first look at their self interests first and then only provide some verbal convolutions to describe how the proposed law will help the ordinary citizens. If it does benefit the general public its mostly by pure accident. Well, being mostly and illiterate nation the degree to which our rulers succeed is very high.

I dont think the basic motivation of politicians in united states is likely to be much different. I hear the deep pocketed companies influence the politicians a lot in USA.

Can it be the case that the non technology companies such as Oil companies and Financial organizations which have been the most valued companies in last few decades felt threatened that new technology companies like Apple, Google etc. will grow much bigger than them and influence the lawmakers more than non-tech companies ?

If there are less and less start ups, if Google and Facebook find it difficult to operate wouldn't these people be benefited the most?