Internet companies like Google and Mozilla dealt backers of SOPA and PIPA a pretty vicious, if not deadly, blow last week with a coordinated online protest against the proposed laws, which seek to curb online piracy of copyrighted content. Though representatives of content producers, like the Motion Picture Association of America, claim that online piracy costs the U.S. economy $58 billion a year and more than 373,000 jobs, Internet firms and non-profits like Wikipedia successfully countered with the argument that SOPA and PIPA would needlessly stifle the free flow of information and the continued evolution of the Internet. (TIME’s parent, Time Warner, backs the laws.)