As a photographer and a member of one of the largest online art communities out there, I'd like to not only share my disgust for SOPA, but contribute a suggestion:

If you are an artist, you know that your art is like your own child.  Going on the internet can sometimes be like going down a dark alley in a big city at night.  Go ahead; I dare you to tell your child to walk down it, alone, without any line of defense.  But give that kid a couple of good friends, perhaps a taser and some pepper spray, maybe even a few years of working out at the gym...yeah, don't mess with him or his jock friends.  Slap a bad ass watermark tattoo across his bulging pecs, and even though he looks a little ugly after all that, you know you have that good kid inside your hard drive for when you need him most.

Sometimes the creep in the alley has a gun.  Sometimes they win, and you're hurt more than you ever imagined that you could.  Your baby is broken, and maybe that's the last of it.

If you don't feel like taking the time to protect it, then you shouldn't be exposing it to the world anyway.  If you don't care what happens to it, then don't be surprised one day when it's been taken away.  If you release your baby into the world and walk away, only to become a victim of "kidnapping," don't blame those around the scene of the crime for simply not knowing that it was yours to begin with.  The government can only do so much to stop these "kidnappers" or "sexual predators" or whatever else is out there from lurking in the shadows, waiting to snatch and violate the creation you regard as your own flesh and blood.  The government can do something, but this--this SOPA abomination--is not it.

As for me, I'll protect my art-children as best I can.  I can't protect my work from every scum bag out there, but I damn well know that behind me I have the strength of a lot of people who will help me fight should something go wrong, because they're artists too.  Find a community, artists.  Find your clique, your group, your foster family.  Whether or not SOPA actually happens (and pray it doesn't), arm yourselves with friends.  It takes a village to raise a piece of art; it demands an audience to protect it.