The big companies supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act apparently made a bucket of change by pushing file-sharing software and encouraging piracy in the first place:  

For more evidence of the claim, click on the Web Archive links here. (And Congress appears to have unlawfully downloaded copyrighted content through BitTorrent.) Whether or not you believe there was conspiratorial intent, it appears like the supporters of SOPA are hypocrites. Of course, even if SOPA's supporters were saints, the bill itself is “unconstitutional”, would “criminalize” the Internet … and is modeled on China.