I think just as Tor, BitTorrent, and Silk Road scoff at laws and exist outside/despite them, Bitcoin will exist in the same way. It's getting to the point where the government is passing laws or threatening lawsuits to try to stop something they can't control (SOPA is a great recent example), and the people are just completely ignoring them, since they will have little effect in the end (not counting the anti-SOPA protests, though if it had passed, switching to I2P or Namecoin would've meant the government would have lost even more control).
I disagree. How can you compare bitcoin to silkroad? this is exactly what we should fight against if we want bitcoin to get anywhere. bitcoin is to silkroad what cash is to street dealers. not more, not less.
SOPA is indeed a great example, but saying the people completely ignored it?? The efforts to stop it - probably the biggest campaign in the history of web rights - was successful! This is exactly what i'm hoping to see with bitcoin.