Clearly, Hollywood/RIAA has some of the finest politicians money can buy. They got both parties to agree on something.<p>You'd think with all the anti-SOPA protests that the party that just lost the election would be pushing the issue. Hollywood and the media -- key copyright industries -- have never been friendly to Republicans. So they wouldn't make many new enemies with an anti-copyright position.<p>Meanwhile, they might be able to detach younger, technology-savvy, Internet-loving freedom junkies from the Democratic party by taking an aggressive stance on that bloc's core issue.<p>While many HN'ers seem to be donkeys to the core, I daresay a not-insignificant number would vote Republican if that party managed to get its head out of its elephant (the usual idiom features the wrong party's mascot) and put libertarian principles on the front burner.<p>Of course, hoping that politicians -- of any party -- will behave in a way that's actually in the public interest is probably a lost cause.