OpenTTD is a game about managing a transportation company. In it you build railroads, bus and truck networks, airports, etc to link cities and industries together. In this game, you need to be aware of what individual cities think of your company. If they're accepting of you, they'll allow you to place depots and ports within the city limits, or even demolish buildings and alter the nearby landscape. Doing this too much will naturally lower their opinion of you until they won't allow any alterations at all.

Now, there are several game mechanics related to this wherein you can try to raise a town's approval of your company. Providing transportation services naturally raises their mood. A city's approval will naturally trend towards neutral over time if you do nothing at all. Planting trees nearby will generally raise their mood. And lastly, you could try to bribe the city council, which if successful will instantly raise the approval rating towards you, letting you build whatever you want for a bit.

Thing is, that's not always successful. The citizenry can find about your corruption and hate you even more. I've had this happen a few times and my reaction is generally "How dare they get in the way of my plans! It's as if they don't WANT me level half the city to make way for a giant airport! Who the hell do they think they are?"

WHO INDEED.

So where am I going with this? The MPAA recently came out and said that it was an "abuse of power" for Wikipedia to go down for a day in an attempt to inform the citizenry of the internet of their shady dealings. And I can see why they're upset! After all, they spent a lot of time, money and effort bribing congress into letting them write their own legislation. They have so much money and wield so much power that life to them is essentially a game. If they lose this fight with SOPA and PIPA they'll rant and rave and spout rhetoric and project some more, and then they'll calm down and plan more ways to bend the game to their will.