effects of S O P A on online game projects (kinda off topic)

those laws, passed or not wont solve anything.

downloading copyrighted material is illegal in many countries, doesnt stop anyone from downloading or hosting.
china is the world leader in “filtering” the internet. even with deep packet inspection and manual port probing, they still cant entirely shut down the activities they declared as illegal.

this is not a problem of the internet, it happened before, people copied cd’s, floppytisks, vhs tapes, even poems and songs were subject to such activities.
in short. if you want to stop that, you have to put every human on this planet into a small box with bars on the window , thus entirely preventing any form of communication. iirc there was a 5j prison sentence on sharing copyrighted material in case of sopa/pipa? so putting everyone behind bars might be their plan to begin with, but i dont know.

about games, be sure to create everything yourself, or be sure you only use material with appropriate licencing. you should do that regardless of sopa or pipa cause it just aint nice to use other people’s work without permission.