How to Make Up for Lost Costs

Business Week Has an article posted here about a Portland woman sued by the RIAA for music piracy whose case was dismissed. She is now countersuing the group and members of the RIAA for conspiracy. Part of the suit alleges that members of the music industry conspired to create a litigation empire, a source of recouping revenue through lawsuits alone regardless of whether they were suing the right people or not (most of the defendants, even those who alleged innocence, settled out of court for a handsome sum).

Hopefully, the lawsuit will quelch the music industry's gluttonous thirst for blood money before the RIAA goes forward with its plans to fully socialize its costs onto the American taxpayer. The group is now looking for Congressmen to get in bed with to do force universities to hand over students, to do its own industry research on how much money is being lost, and to make the lawsuits the job of federal prosecutors rather than their private aresenal of well-paid attorneys. (Wish I remembered the link for this last part. I believe it was from Wired. Anybody know it?).