[Max Lobovsky]

Recently, I got to talk to a programmer who works for one fo the companies that the RIAA contracts with to deal with p2p filesharing (tracking users, fake files, attacking networks, etc). As we were talking, he told me how open source software he finds on SourceForge makes his life so much easier. At first, I thought, "o, great, thats the power of open source" but I quickly realized the irony of the situation. The software he was borrowing code from was GPL'd and therefore, by copyright law, he was obliged to release the source of software he developed using it. Of course, these companies have absolutely no intention of doing that. So the RIAA, in its attempt to enforce copyright law, is stamping all over it themselves.