Today, Wikipedia and hundreds of other sites are blacked out to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA.
It is a great effort and getting a ton of publicity, which is exactly what the goal was. The next step is education and progress.
A great place to start is with this debate between Leo Laporte and Nilay Patel. Both are content creators and experts in all things internet (Patel is even a former copyright attorney).
Listening to Leo’s points completely changed my point of view on this topic.
There is also an audio version (mp3).