Acta shares similarities with America's Stop Online Piracy Act, which US lawmakers set aside last week after Wikipedia and Google blacked out or partially obscured their websites for a day in protest.
Aside from hosting Grohl and friends, Park City Live will be a prime stop on the after-party circuit from Jan. 17 to 21 as it partners with Wynn Las Vegas to bring Sin City nightlife to Sundance.
Celebrity endorsements and well-meaning Californians aside, the question now is whether wealthy Chinese in Asia can be persuaded to stop eating shark's fin.
Because - politics aside - a lot of the adjustments that the US economy needed to make to stop running up debts with the rest of the world and to compete in global markets are already well under way.