Like I said, the issue is access to and dissemination of proprietary data; the focus is on privately copyrighted material (i.e. piracy,) but the effect extends to strategic government data also. Many of the same mechanisms and federal powers are desired to deal with both. It is just far easier to market opposition to new laws as free populists vs. evil Big Media, but the Julian Assanges of the world (or at least the US) are also covered. The only difference is that no lives are (directly) at stake when someone illegally burns the latest Lady Gaga album, so that is obiviously the way to promote opposition to any and all new laws.

However much we jaw back and forth, a new law is coming, so the smart thing to do is get out in front of it and help determine what it will be the way Obama has requested. People who prefer going to war with "the Man" can certainly do that, but WILL lose, and lose their voice in the final law along the way.