This presentation will focus on the recent events of the proposed U.S. Senate and House bills Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and how they were justified in their intent but lacking in their execution as a means to battle internet piracy. My thesis is: although the intended purpose of SOPA and PIPA were legally correct and copyright owners should be allowed to protect their work, the bills' would have given too much power to the U.S. government and major corporations and would have resulted in internet censorship. This practice therefore raises questions about 1st Amendment rights and obstructing the right to free speech. Although the topic is relatively recent, there is a considerable amount of content on the events, and substantial academic work regarding copyright infringement via the internet and methods which already exist to combat these problems.