SOPA and PIPA both shelved for now.

"Shelved" just sounds like they're waiting for attention to die down so they can quietly sneak it in. The party starts when they're eradicated.

Unfortunately, I don't see that happening. They'll probably just change the name and try again.

What can be done to keep it dead in the future?

Shelved is good, but they will pass eventually. The cloud is becoming the wild west where anything stored there may be seized without due process in the never-never land of international copyright law. Foreign hollywoods will claim you are copyrighting Indian, Chinese, German or Russian property.

All good admins should have daily backups (encrypted onto a medium you actually own) so that when nations all over the world seize your property because some competitor complains, you don't lose your entire business for years while authorities strong arm the ISP's and Web Hosts to make you invisible. Your original site will be invisible and blocked, but while you are waiting years and years for the copyright carnival to play out, you have a 3 step process where you can re-deploy your entire business on a new web server. A new business name, a new website name on a new server in a different nation. A nation who might care a little bit more about businesses than USA. When enough 20 something startup people full of energy start a mass exodus, moving their businesses to foreign countries, congress will take note that the draconian measures are hurting tax revenues.

It means you need a business recovery plan when foreign nations attack your business. The sovereign was supposed to protect us unlawful search and seizure, but appears these rights are going away. If you are my competition and I can squish your business by adding some material to your site then alerting some company somewhere to shuts you down without due process... I will.

Summary, Lets cause a ruckus that we are all moving our businesses overseas because of what congress is doing. Lets see how fox news spins that.

Im sick of people going on about SOPA and PIPA. Take the recent megaupload incident, the American government wanted the site down, the site is now down. No new law needed, simples.