That Ain't Right

In continuing its crusade against music pirates, the Recording Industry Association of America infiltrated the Internet2 research network in order to stamp out the copyright infringement allegedly running rampant over the “lawless” network. As pointed out alreadly by Slashdotters, WTF was the RIAA doing on a private network monitoring filesharing anyway? What is most disheartening about the situation, isn’t so much that students are most likely not learning anything by downloading the latest Britney album over a really really fastpipe, but that companies are able to break “laws governing access to restricted computer systems” in order to enforce the laws that make them richer.