A Creator's Thoughts on SOPA and PIPA

I'm a writer. I write stories and I have, in the past, posted them on the Internet. Other people have taken these stories and posted them in other places on the Internet without my permission and, most of the time, without crediting the story to me. Sometimes, the poster even gets complimented on his or her  story, as though they wrote it. There's even one person who's talking about making a game using a character I created, even though it's my goddamn character.

Every time I see one of my...