That's the exact mentality that gets acts like the National Defense Authorization Act put into law. If it weren't for the 18th SOPA would have certianly passed in the house, it still might. Hollywood basically bought this, take a look at the money trail for SOPA and PIPA. Obama has gotten over $9,000,000 from them since he was campaigning in '08 (to my understanding, I don't know that for certain). The public outcry is all that changed any of this. More than just knowing these bills most of the people I've talked to see the closed-door deals that our elected officials on both sides of the political fence make.

Even though this bill was killed it will find its way in another amendment. Remember, it's already been paid for. It's up to the people to watch the government and know that bad bills will go though if they do not vote accordingly.