If you work at a startup, SOPA is more relevant than Sarbanes-Oxley ever was. It's only relevant, however, to people whose function is directly affected by it.

If you work at a startup, SOPA is more relevant than Sarbanes-Oxley ever was. It's only relevant, however, to people whose function is directly affected by it. In that sense, it's similar to any serious, macro-level issue that affects your company, but which goes unnoticed by the rank-and-file engineers. That doesn't mean you can ignore it.