RIAA and DHS are hives of depraved piracy

Certainly a level of hypocrisy is present in all human beings but doctors smoking seems to be a bit out of place with the rest. Wouldn't regularly committing a crime in your day-to-day life preclude you from also being an effective police officer? That is, a doctor smoking doesn't have any real repercussions other than that they're not following their own advice. The law enforcement officer, however, violating the law seems to be not disobeying his own advice, but disobeying the rules that we as society have set forth. In effect, his actions impact his ability to act as an enforcer of the law. The doctor simply gives advice, the patient can always choose to ignore it with no external repercussions. By committing crimes, it seems that the officer is actually negligent in his duties and unfit for holding his office.

By the way, this isn't a statement about the occurrence, merely a statement about what ought to be (i.e., is vs. ought). If you were simply saying that it's not uncommon for humans to be hypocritical, I completely agree with that.

It would seem to reason to me that given the positions advocated by DHS and the RIAA that it would be perfectly acceptable to take down both their domains (including email) and plaster it with a big warning label that it's been seized by the Citizens Commission to Investigate the DHS and might be returned sometime in the next year but the CCIDHS can't tell you why it was seized because all the evidence is secret. In a year they'll have their domain returned because the investigation turned up no evidence of wrong doing.

If doing that based on the contents of some russian website seems insane then perhaps it is equally insane to put laws like SOPA on the books.

Apathy towards police hypocrisy does not excuse the behavior.

Only the rights holder would have the legal right to download a copy of the works, as far as I know. The RIAA certainly doesn't have the rights to movies so that's out of the question and it seems highly likely that actually downloading or uploading any of these works wouldn't be necessary for the police to investigate any crime.