Some Amusing (and Not-So Amusing) RIAA Updates

I recently ran across these few links regarding the RIAA that I found funny and/or disturbing:

1. Here's a story on Techdirt about a few universities finally getting a little backbone and standing up to the RIAA's scare tactics. The RIAA has been putting pressure on colleges to 'rat out' it's students by way of handing over IP addresses from university networks and the like. It's nice to see that at least some of the houses of higher education have decided not to cave under the unscrupulous extortions of the RIAA.
2. On a more pathetic note, the kind-hearted souls at the RIAA recently attempted to sink their talons into a 10 year old girl (who was actually 7 at the time of the alleged illicit downloading activity) in Oregon. The girl's mother, 42 and living on Social Security Disability Assistance, insists on the girl's innocence.
   
3. Here's a funny little diagram of the RIAA's lawsuit decision making process called the RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix, posted on BBspot. The author gives a link to larger jpeg and pdf versions of the image that can be printed out and circulated at your office or where ever.
   
4. Finally, here's a nice blog run by two NYC lawyers called "Recording Industry vs The People," which is 'devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people' and is ripe with stories like the ones above. A good resource for tracking the madness....