Yeah, its the "day after the blackout" which I think is a favor to the MPAA/RIAA folks. "Let's erase these 'sopa is bad' stories from the nightly news and replace them with a good evil pirates tale."
It's very clear now, we live in a plutocracy. Big corporations are above the law in every single way that matters.
I prefer the word "synarchism", as used by Fairbank and King: