SOPA, and PIPA, and Blackouts! Oh my!

Curious about all the blacked-out web sites today? Trying to figure out what the alphabet soup of "SOPA" (Stop Online Piracy Act) and "PIPA" (Protect IP Act) are? Don't know which side makes more sense to you? Here are some helpful websites for figuring it out:

• A Technical Examination of SOPA and PIPA (from reddit)
• Stop Online Piracy Act (from the House Judiciary Committee)
• SOPA Explained (from CNNMoney.com)
• SOPA: The Internet Blacklist Bill  (from Stop American Censorship)
• All About PIPA and SOPA (from Lifehacker.org)
• House Introduces BiPartisan Legislation to Protect American IP Jobs (from the Recording Industry Association of America)
• Artists Against Digital Theft
• Viewpoint: For and Against Piracy Protest (from the BBC)