If you spend sometime online you must have surely heard these words before, SOPA and PIPA are something to do with the internet censorship, it is a law being passed by the US Authorities which makes the website owners responsible and punishable for how the users interact on their site.
The Bill has been suspended for now, but if it is passed it will cause a lot of sites, mostly crowd sourced to go down.
Here is everything you need to know about PIPA and SOPA