As friends would tell me, kindly, ah no Murph, they're not.
SOPA and PIPA are acronymns for legislation about internet piracy that has Wikipedia and Google and a few hundred other companies with their megabytes in a bundle.
I found this column that explains so of it and takes a perspective of a content provider ( of which I am one as well )
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/sopa-and-pipa-the-wrong-tools-to-combat-online-piracy/2012/01/18/gIQA1yxR9P_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop