Busy few days for the RIAA. First, there's the story of their so-called amnesty (where people, in exchange for registering with the RIAA as confessed file-sharers, get absolutely nothing in return). Then the Times reports on the RIAA's efforts to tar a network architecture (peer-to-peer) with the kiddie-porn brush (P2P file sharing supports child pornography, piracy aids organized crime and finances terrorism, if the RIAA can manage to say that KaZaA gets kids high, they get a set of steaknives from John Ashcroft).

Today the vanguard of Big Content's stormtroopers blitzed the public with 261 lawsuits filed nationwide. The cartel is running on an aggressive schedule, designed to use the DMCA's "drive-by subpoena" process to maximum effect: the people in the crosshairs have very little time to consider their options. What's more, the RIAA is trying to outrun any problematic governmental or judicial scrutiny which might cast their actions in a (more) unfavorable light.