"Think!... It ain't illegal yet," sang Funkadelic on One Nation under a Groove. The internationalinternet community certainly isn't in a groove now that Big Bad Businesswants to clamp down on file sharing, file ripping and even file carrying. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is very similar to the indefinite-detention act signedby Barack Obama in the sense that both allow the government unprecedented powersto crack down. Officials in both cases are promising not to take full advantageof the powers, but the risk is in the way such laws make it possible to detain anyonewho has become uncomfortable to the regime. Listening to foreign broadcasts wasillegal during the war, but the Nazis mainly used the law to dispense with Czechswho were troublesome in some other way. ACTA is another example of the dictatorialtendencies sweeping the West. Anyone with a thinking mind is a potential target.