UPDATE: You've probably heard that SOPA/PIPA have been delayed, and therefore we "won." Nope, not yet. These things will come back, so stay on your guard. This is why:

Blah blah blah, SOPA, blah, I know. Everyone's been saying so much about it. But SOPA is just the latest in a 20-year battle against creativity. The media companies of last century do not want individual people to create their own artwork, their own stories, or their own popular culture — something like this furry community we have is absolutely abhorrent to them.

If you are an independent artist or creator, you may think that you have some common ground with Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, and the other companies sponsoring SOPA: when people download your work without paying you for it, it makes it difficult to make a living. But you do not have common ground. Big media does not want you, the small artist, to make a living selling your work. They want to destroy you, because you are a competitor.

And now, we're all artists. We make up our own characters, and invent our own ways of entertaining ourselves instead of sitting on the couch and watching television. Our mere existence is seen as a threat by Warner Bros. and Universal.

Please, I beg of you, as a fellow person with eyeballs and ears and a respiratory system, take fifteen minutes to watch this video explaining what I mean by that. Clay Shirky explains it far more eloquently than I can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I