stop online piracy act (sopa)

The concerns which have led to the creation of SOPA are that there is societal damage being done by the unlawful availability of the following:
Copyrighted digital work, such as music, movies, and so on. Pharmaceutical drugs. Here the problem is not the actual patent drugs themselves, but rather copycat drugs, either sold pretending to be the original, or sold where they have not been licensed as of yet. Military materials. Other products. Here we presumably reference high-end items. Tied to this is the idea that, since some or much of this is happening in online transactions, that there needs to be some way to interrupt this process. The bill, then attempts to do this by going after (presumably) any and all intermediaries. Even if one acknowledges the grave state of these kinds of activities, the biggest problem with SOPA is that, rather than going after the perpetrators of the actual illegal activity, it seeks to go after those who have any part in transmitting information about the transactions over the internet. This would seem to be an admission that catching the criminals is not possible or too difficult, so therefore the act attempts to create criminals by proxy.The aim is to effectivly reduce traffic to the site from the major search engines and any site that is on US soil. It appears Internet Providers on US soil would also be required to BLOCK a site. This strategm appears to have worked on wikileaks and I believe that gave the government confidence it could do the same to other sites.