The RIAA has continued its warpath through American society ... after the RIAA shut down Napster and Audiogalaxy ... they went after Verizon, an internet service provider.

In an amazing decision, the courts ruled that Verizon had to hand over the names of users on their service that were accused of "piracy" by the RIAA.

Since then, the RIAA has been going after individual users; they've claimed that they've already served up a thousand people with notices that they've been pirating music and legal action would be taken. According to various news sources, the RIAA has been going after about 75 people a day ...

This is ridiculous. The RIAA is on incredibly shaky legal ground right now ... they've been criticized for their anti-competitive practices ... and now they're using Congress to pass laws that are overly broad and vague so the RIAA can sue everybody.

I really have been disillusioned with Congress lately ... I detest politics ... there needs to be some direct dialect between the President and the people; Congress needs to quit standing in the way and demanding political favors to get anything done.

The favoritism is crippling America ... gar. We need a strong President who can respect the individual rights and put pressure to get various laws overturned - the DMCA being one of them. All these laws are killing innovation and will be our downfall if we don't get rid of them.

Sigh. I would recommend not going on file trading services until Verizon can appeal the court decision and prevent the RIAA from targetting individuals. Geeks need to build an encrypted P2P system that we can all adopt to prevent the RIAA from spying on us ... those bastards deserve to die.