This may be slightly off-topic but wondering what the obviously-continental-European power plugs (those that aren't USB plugs in the protest image) are doing in

This may be slightly off-topic but wondering what the obviously-continental-European power plugs (those that aren't USB plugs in the protest image) are doing in an ad advertising protesting SOPA. Are the French and Germans supposed to go off-line to protest American legislation? As for the bill, isn't it pretty obviously a copyright maximalist position internationally? I wonder what this has to do with the USTR's reversal on that recently.